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Terms of use

The Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) Job Board is published and operated by Redactive Media Sales Ltd ("we", "us" or “our”) on behalf of ISEP as commercial partner and nominated service provider. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 03220190 and have our registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ.

By using the Job Board, you confirm that you accept these terms and conditions and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use the Job Board.

These terms apply to the exclusion of any other terms that you seek to impose or incorporate, or which are implied by law, trade custom, practice or course of dealing.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

These terms of service refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of the Job Board:

  • Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
  • the ISEP privacy policy which is available at: https://www.isepglobal.org/legal/privacy-policy;
    The information and services available through the Job Board are provided for the sole purpose of individuals looking for job opportunities and career information (Candidates) and for employers seeking to recruit staff (Recruiters).

Unless otherwise stated in these terms, all copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the Job Board and the material available on the Job Board belongs to us. Use of the Job Board does not give you any rights in such materials.

Terms and conditions of business for Candidates

Candidates will not be charged for using the Job Board.

Our Services

On behalf of ISEP, we provide the following services to Candidates through the Job Board:

ISEP CV database service

The ISEP CV database service is the service provided by us which allows Recruiters to view, search, purchase and access CVs of Candidates held in ISEP’s CV database.

Candidates can add their CV to the searchable CV database when applying for a job or by signing up and creating a profile.

All copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the CV database belong to ISEP, who grants us a non-exclusive licence to access the information in the CV database for the sole purpose of proving our services to Candidates and Recruiters in accordance with these terms.

Job Application Service

The job application service is the service provided by us which allows Recruiters (or the advertising agency or media buyer for such Recruiter) to place their advertisements on the Job Board and Candidates to apply for those jobs either by:

making a job application directly through the Job Board; or being re-directed to email a third party; or being re-directed to a third party’s website to apply through that website.

Jobmatch Service

The Jobmatch service is the service provided by us through which we will, on behalf of the Recruiter, contact suitable Candidates (who have agreed to such contact) with details of an advertisement placed by the Recruiter on the Job Board.

Job Alert Service

The job alert service is the service provided by us which allows you to select your preferred job criteria and then receive emails containing details of jobs that fulfil your criteria.

If you are a registered user or have provided your email address in your session and you click through to potentially apply, your email address will be shared with the Recruiter. You will be notified before clicking through to the site.

Sharing of Information

To the extent that you wish us to share your information and CV with Recruiters (either through the CV database service or the job application service) you consent to our sharing your CV, together with any additional information you provide to us, with the Recruiters who use the Job Board.

Information Only

Job advertisements on the Job Board are provided by Recruiters and/or their agents and are not reviewed by us. Neither we nor ISEP accept any responsibility or liability for the contents of any advertisement and expect Candidates to carry out such verification procedures as are customary in the circumstances.

The services and information provided through the Job Board are to assist in the jobseeking or recruitment process. Neither we nor ISEP guarantee their suitability in any particular case. You should obtain independent verification before relying on information provided on the Job Board.

Our liability, and the liability of ISEP, for any loss or damage suffered by you as the result of your use of the Job Board is limited to your actual direct damages and, except in the case of fraud, excludes any loss of future earnings, profit or prospects or any consequential or speculative loss. As required by law, this exclusion does not extend to death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

No Agency

Neither we nor ISEP introduce or supply Candidates to Recruiters (or vice versa).

You acknowledge that we and ISEP do not operate a “work-finding service” and that the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Act) and The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (together the Agency Laws) shall have no application in relation to these terms or the Job Board.

To the extent that the Agency Laws do apply to any of the services, if at all, we and ISEP act in the capacity of an employment agency to help you find the type of work you are looking for.

Your right to cancel

We will retain a copy of your CV and any additional information you provide to us through the Job Board until you delete it or close your account with us.

[If you are a registered user you can also change your privacy settings to set whether your CV is shared with all recruiters/employers, no recruiters/employers or you can select those recruiters/employers that you do not want to share your CV with. Please note that additional recruiters are added all the time so you should check your privacy settings frequently.]

Please see our privacy policy for details of how personal data is collected and may be processed or shared with others.

Deletion of your CV / Closing your account with us

Where you choose to delete your details and/ or CV ISEP will not retain a copy of it in the CV database and it will not be made available to Recruiters. Please note however neither we nor ISEP are not able to control the storage of your details and/ or CVs by recruiters or employers.

If you wish to close your individual account with us then please contact us.

Problems with the Job Board

If you experience any problems with the Job Board or wish to make a complaint about it, any of the services available on the Job Board or any recruiters or employees who you feel are abusing the service we provide then please contact us at isep-jobs@redactive.co.uk.

Browsers

We endeavour to support as many users as possible. We cannot guarantee availability of the service through all browsers. We also require Candidates to enable session cookies (enabling permanent cookies is recommended) and JavaScript in their browser.

Terms and conditions of business for Recruiters

In these terms and conditions of business for Recruiters, the following words have the following meaning:

Order Form means an order for Services on a form provided by us (in any format) and signed by you as a Recruiter; and

Services means all recruitment services made available by us from time to time.

The provisions of these terms and conditions of business for Recruiters shall apply only where the Services include job listings on the ISEP Job Board or recruitment services as stated in the Order Form.

Each Order Form received from you constitutes an offer by you to purchase Services in accordance with these terms and conditions.

We are free to accept or reject each Order Form at our absolute discretion. We will not consider the provision of any Services pursuant to any Order Form until the Order Form has been returned to us in a form approved by us and signed by you or on your behalf.

An order for Services will only be deemed to be accepted by us when we issue written acceptance of the Order Form.

Our Services

Neither we nor ISEP introduce or supply Candidates to Recruiters (or vice versa).

It is recommended you ensure that any Candidate is suitable for the role you are looking to fill.

Any CVs which you may have access to through the Job Board are provided by Candidates and are not reviewed by us or ISEP. Neither we nor ISEP accept any responsibility or liability for the contents of CVs and it is your responsibility to carry out such checks and procedures as are necessary to ensure that Candidates are suitable for the role you are looking to fill, including whether they have the required qualifications and personal characteristics. 

Neither we nor ISEP guarantee any response to your advertisement or that responses will be from individuals suitable for the job advertised.

You acknowledge that we and ISEP do not operate a “work-finding service” and that the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Act) and The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (Agency Laws) shall have no application in relation to these terms or the Job Board. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify us and ISEP (without limitation) against any loss, damage or legal expense arising from any person bringing a claim pursuant to the Agency Laws.

Job Board rules

We have rules regarding the content and format of jobs posted on the Job Board. Their purpose is to ensure that users who search the Job Board or the CV database get results that are presented as clearly as possible. At our discretion and without liability to you, we will remove from the Job Board any advertisement that is posted in breach of these rules. The rules may change from time to time and you are advised to refer to them regularly.

The rules are:

  • No duplicating of jobs.
  • No over-use of keywords in job descriptions or job titles. Over-use means deliberately inserting words with the intention of influencing the job listing's position in the results listing.
  • Job advertisements placed on the Job Board must be for genuine vacancies only.
  • URLs or e-mail links are not allowed in the body copy of the job description page.
  • E-mail links are permitted from the 'send an e-mail' link and url linking is permitted from the 'apply online' link.

Illegal advertisements

Advertisements that discriminate on grounds of sex, race, age religion (unless there is a genuine occupational requirement) or disability are illegal and may result in proceedings being taken against both the advertiser and the publisher. We may at our discretion remove any advertisement from the Job Board if we feel it is in breach of employment discrimination rules.

Responses to advertisements

If you are an employment agency or an employment business (as defined by the Act) it is your responsibility to ensure that the advertisements you place on the Job Board comply with your obligations under the Agency Laws. You agree to comply with the Agency Laws as they affect the conduct of your business and the advertisements you place on the Job Board.

You agree to deal fairly and professionally with individuals who may respond to an advertisement you have posted. You will indemnify us and ISEP from and against any claim brought by an individual against us and/or ISEP arising from your breach of this obligation or any other of these terms and conditions.

It is your responsibility to carry out such checks and procedures as are necessary to ensure that Candidates are suitable for the job advertised and have the required qualifications and personal characteristics.

We do not guarantee any response to your advertisement or that responses will be from individuals suitable for the job advertised.

Content and links

If your advertisement links to another site from the 'apply now' option, you are responsible for maintaining the links and for the content of your advertisement and the linked site. We may remove from the Job Board any advertisement that contains content or links to a site that, in our opinion, is defamatory or illegal. You will indemnify us and ISEP from any claims or liability arising from content or links contained in your advertisements.

Browsers

We endeavour to support as many users as possible. We cannot guarantee availability of the service through all browsers.

Use of CV database

Employment agencies and employment businesses

If you are an employment agency or an employment business (as defined by the Act) it is your responsibility to ensure that the use you make of information from ISEP’s CV database complies with your obligations under the Act and the various regulations made under it, together with any applicable guidelines. You agree to comply with the Act and these regulations as they affect the conduct of your business and the use you make of information on the ISEP CV database.

Rights in the CV database

All copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the CV database belong to ISEP, who grants us a non-exclusive licence to access the information in the CV database for the sole purpose of proving our services to Candidates and Recruiters in accordance with these terms.

You acknowledge that you do not acquire any rights in the database or its content and that your retention and use of the database and its content is governed by these terms and conditions.

Use of the database

The material you are entitled to receive from the CV database is determined by the product you have purchased from us. On receipt of this material you may:

  • use, search or download it to your database using the Candidate Search back office;
  • use the information about the individuals contained in the database for the purpose of contacting them;
  • and use the information only in connection with your own recruitment-related activities.

You may NOT:

  • supply, sell or license material from the CV database, or a copy of it, to any other person, including another member of your group of companies;
  • download the database through any automated process; or
  • contact the individuals on the database or make or allow any use of the information about those individuals,
  • other than for the purpose of finding suitable candidates for specific job vacancies. You must, at all times, comply with the relevant date protection legislation.

Deletion of database material

You agree to delete all material from the CV database upon its replacement with up-to-date material or the satisfactory conclusion of your search for a suitable candidate, whichever occurs first.

Dealings with Candidates

You agree to deal fairly with individuals you may contact using information from the CV database. You will indemnify us and ISEP from and against any claim brought by an individual against us or ISEP.

Prices

Prices are guaranteed for the period stated on the Order Form. Prices are confidential and may not be disclosed by you.

A job posted on the Job Board will remain live for 28 days or such shorter time as we agree with you. Any extension of this time will be charged to you as a new posting. Any jobs posted in addition to the agreed number of jobs per month will be charged at a price per job agreed with you at the time of the contract negotiation. A single job is identified by its unique number. If you delete a job and then either reposts it or posts another, this will be classed as two jobs.

If any Services to be used within any time period specified on the Order Form are not used within that period of time they may not be carried over into any subsequent period without our prior written consent. You will be responsible for payment for any unused Services.

Payments

All prices exclude VAT.

All invoices are payable within 28 days from invoice date.

Late payment will entitle us to suspend provision of Services.

Interest will be payable on late payments at the rate of 3% above base rate from time to time.

Online advertising

These terms and conditions apply to all advertising material ('campaigns') accepted by us for display on the Job Board. By placing a campaign, you accept these terms and conditions as principal, even if you are acting as agent or buyer for the actual advertiser.

We must receive the complete creative content for a campaign in acceptable format at least two working days before the date specified in your order. To cancel or alter your order you must inform us, by email at the address on the order, at least two working days before the date specified in your order. Otherwise you must pay the full amount set out in the order.

You are responsible for the content of the campaign and for ensuring that it complies with all relevant legislation and codes of practice. We may, at our discretion, remove the campaign from display without reference or liability to you.

You will indemnify us and ISEP against any claim that the campaign or its content infringes the intellectual property rights or other rights of others or is defamatory or otherwise offensive.

If you are an employment agency or an employment business (as defined by the Act) it is your responsibility to ensure the advertisements you place on the Job Board comply with the Agency Laws.

Your sole remedy if we, or our third party subcontractors who may host and serve campaigns from time to time, make an error in displaying any campaign is the cost of re-running the relevant campaign. Neither we nor our subcontractors shall be liable in any circumstances for any loss of profit or business. We shall, additionally, have no liability for failure to display the campaign caused by circumstances outside our control.

Termination

You may terminate the provision of Services under any Order Form by no fewer than 30 days’ notice to expire at the end of a contract month. Termination by the customer before the end of the contract term may, at our discretion, result in loss of discounts agreed for the entire contract term.

We may terminate the provision of Services with immediate effect if you:

  • are in material breach of these terms and conditions and has not remedied such breach within ten days of notice specifying the breach and requiring that it be remedied, or
  • become insolvent, cease to trade or go into liquidation.