Terms of website use by prospective candidates
We urge you to read through these terms and conditions before you register or submit any information to us. These conditions shall apply to any person who registers their details with us for the purposes of recruitment. If you have any questions or queries relating to any of these terms, please feel free to contact us before making your submission.
In these conditions Viscount Maritime Limited shall be referred to as “us”, “our” or “we” and any person who registers a portfolio to us shall be referred to as “you” or “your”.
1/ REGISTRATION
You may register with us online and we will provide you with a user ID and password (which may be chosen by you). You must keep this account information confidential at all times. This information will be required should you wish to access or update your profile.
2/ TERMS OF USE
By registering, you agree to be bound by these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not register with us. We reserve the right to change these terms by posting any changes on the website. The new terms will be effective immediately after they are posted.
3/ CANDIDATE INFORMATION
3.1 Following registration, you may submit your profile and/or curriculum vitae (“Portfolio”) to us. Upon submission of your Portfolio we may, in our absolute discretion, invite you to submit a Greenscreen interview (“Interview”) which shall become part of your Portfolio.
3.2 You may access, update and delete your Portfolio, other than your Interview, at any time.
3.3 You shall be given all of the information you need to record the Interview and submit it to us. Once the Interview is submitted you will not have further access to it but shall be entitled to request that it is deleted in accordance with clause 6.2 below.
4/ ACCURACY OF INFORMATION INDEMNITY
4.1 You shall be responsible for the accuracy of the information you submit to us and by submitting such information you warrant to us that such information is accurate. You shall be responsible for updating such information from time to time.
4.2 You agree to indemnify us and keep us indemnified, our successors and assigns, from and against any claim brought against us by a third party as a result of the provision by you of false or misleading information, whether the claim is for losses, costs, actions, proceedings, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal costs and expenses) however they are suffered and however they are incurred.
5/ USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
5.1 By submitting your Portfolio to us you are granting us permission to forward your Portfolio to any prospective employer or grant them access to view your Portfolio.
5.2 We will not charge you any fees for any service we may provide to you and we shall not be under any obligation to submit any of your Portfolio to any prospective employer nor to ensure accessibility of such information.
5.3 Your Portfolio is intended to provide potential employers with general information and does not guarantee any employment or interviews.
5.4 Once a Portfolio is submitted or access is given to a prospective employer they will be entitled to contact you direct to arrange a further interview.
6/ RETENTION OF INFORMATION
6.1 We reserve the right to remove your Profile or Interview from our website, terminate your registration and/or deny you access to the site or any part of it at anytime in our absolute discretion and without any explanation or notification.
6.2 If you have submitted an Interview to us, you shall be entitled at any time to request that we delete any copies we hold of the Interview and remove it from our records.
6.3 In the event that you request us to delete your Interview we will use all reasonable endeavours to delete any copies of the Interview that we hold and shall request any prospective employers to whom it has been sent to delete any copies they may hold. We shall not be liable for the failure by any prospective employer to delete any Interview.
6.4 Under the Employment Agencies Act we are obliged to hold your data for 12 months after it was last used. Unless otherwise agreed we will retain your Portfolio on our website for a period of 6 months from the date of submission. We will retain such information for a period of 12 months from the date such information is removed from our website. This process shall be carried out in accordance with the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Data Protection Acts 1994 and 1998.
7/ PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us and we have a privacy policy setting out how we may collect, use and store your personal data. This can be found at www.viscountmaritime.com/privacy_policy.php.
8/ WARRANTIES
8.1 We do not give any warranty, condition, guarantee or representation, express or implied, relating to:
8.1.1 Our services or any information contained on our website or any website to which it is linked;
8.1.2 your Portfolio;
8.1.3 the Greenscreen interview; or
8.1.4 any information and guidance given to you in connection with the preparation and recording of a Greenscreen interview.
8.2 Further, we do not warrant that our website will be free of error or that the website and the server are free of computer viruses or other harmful applications. Access to our website and any information contained on it depends upon the operation of internet and telecommunications facilities which are out of our control and we cannot be liable for any transmission delay, service interruption data corruption or other problem associated with the website.
9/ LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
9.1 We shall not be liable to you, except in respect of injury or death of any person (for which no limit applies within the jurisdiction of England and Wales) regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence and breach of statutory duty), strict liability, or otherwise whatsoever, for any loss of profit, business, contracts, or revenues, or for any special, indirect or consequential damage of any nature whatsoever arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or the submission by you of a Profile or Interview.
9.2 If you submit a Profile or Interview, you agree that this clause relating to limitation of liability is reasonable and it reflects the nature of your submission. In particular, you acknowledge that you are not being charged for our services and we shall not at any time enter into any contract with you to provide any service to you. The nature of our website is merely a site upon which to provide your personal information which we may forward to prospective employers at our absolute discretion.
10/ USE OF OUR MATERIAL
We recognise that when you obtain access to our website, your computer downloads a copy of the material on this website. By obtaining access to our website, you agree that you will use the material for your personal use only. You agree not to use the material for any commercial purpose.
11/ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Our website and all of the related pages, including but not limited to content, software, code, graphics or other material contained either in the sponsor advertisements or electronically distributed on this website is owned by us or the sponsors or both and is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Unauthorised use of any copyrighted materials, trademarks or any other intellectual property without the expressed written consent of the owner is strictly prohibited.
12/ LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
We may, from time to time, let you leave the site to linked sites. The linked sites are not under our control and we explicitly state that we are not responsible for the contents of any linked site. The links are provided for your convenience and any such link does not imply endorsement by us of the site or of any association with the operators of the site.
13/ WHO WE ARE
This website is owned and controlled by Viscount Maritime Limited a company registered in England and Wales under registered number 06634610.
The full postal address is: 9 Havelock Chambers, 20-22 Queens Terrace, Southampton SO14 3BQ UK
E-mail address: admin@viscountmaritime.com
14/ SEVERANCE
If any term is held to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, it shall not affect the enforceability of any of the remaining terms.
15/ LAW
These terms of use shall be governed and construed in accordance with English law and be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
