SEEK - Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Overview

Please read this agreement carefully before accessing or using the information and services available through the SEEK website (“Site”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions below. SEEK may modify this agreement at any time, and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting the modified agreement on the Site. Advertiser terms and conditions must be accepted and adhered to by Advertisers who use SEEK’s services and the Site. SEEK also has a comprehensive privacy policy for users of the Site.

Copyright and trademarks

Copyright in the material and trademarks on this Site are owned by SEEK Limited (NZ) Limited (Company Registration Number 978512) (“SEEK”) unless otherwise indicated and you agree not to infringe any intellectual property rights owned by SEEK.

Information for personal, non-commercial use only

You agree that information contained on this Site is for personal use only and may not be sold, redistributed or used for any commercial purpose (this includes but is not limited to the use of Advertiser contact details for unsolicited commercial correspondence and the information available via our Hiring Advice and Market Insights resources subdomains (https://www.seek.com.au/employer/hiring-advice/ and https://www.seek.com.au/employer/market-insights/). You may download material from this Site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from this Site including code and software. You must not use this Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms of use.

You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar automated data gathering, extraction or publication tools on this Site (including without limitation for the purposes of establishing, maintaining, advancing or reproducing information contained on our Site on your own website or in any other publication), except with Our prior written consent.

Information does not represent professional advice

You acknowledge and agree that information published by SEEK is intended to provide general information in summary form on market insights, legal and other issues. SEEK does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of such information.

SEEK does not endorse or recommend any of the jobs, business or self-employment opportunities advertised on its Site and SEEK strongly recommends that prior to entering into any agreement with any of the Advertisers on the Site, that you obtain your own independent legal, accounting, financial or taxation advice as appropriate. It is solely your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of all opinions, advice, services, merchandise and other information provided through the Site or on the Internet generally.

In no event will SEEK be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you or anyone else in reliance upon any information contained on or omitted from the Site.

No guarantees of job vacancy

SEEK gives no guarantee to you of the continued availability of any particular job advertised on the Site and will not be liable to you should an advertiser have filled the vacancy at any time prior to removal of the advertisement from the Site.

Whilst SEEK takes efforts to ensure that jobs advertised are for actual job vacancies, it gives no guarantee to you that every job advertisement represents an actual job vacancy.

No guarantees or endorsements of sites or services we link to or that link to us

SEEK provides links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties from its Site. Such linked sites are not under the control of SEEK and SEEK is not responsible for the contents (including the accuracy, legality or decency) of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. SEEK is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by SEEK of the linked site. SEEK is not responsible for the copyright compliance of any linked site. SEEK will not be liable for any damages or loss arising in any way out of or in connection with or incidental to any information or third party service provided by any third party.

No guarantees as to the service

SEEK provides no warranty to you that the services generally available through its Site will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects in the service will be corrected. You also understand that SEEK cannot and does not guarantee or warrant to you that files available for downloading through the Site or delivered via electronic mail through the Site will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Site for the reconstruction of any lost data.

Our rights to use information you send us

SEEK welcomes ideas and feedback from you about all aspects of the Site. You agree that SEEK may reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, and publicly display any materials and other information (including ideas for new or improved products and services) that you submit to any public areas of the Site (such as bulletin boards, forums and newsgroups) or by email to SEEK. (Please read our privacy policy for more information as to how we deal with information you send to us.)

No guarantees as to security of your information

While SEEK takes all due care in ensuring the privacy and integrity of the information you provide, the possibility exists that this information could be unlawfully observed by a third party while in transit over the Internet or while stored on SEEK systems or on SEEK’s Site. SEEK disclaims all liability to you to the greatest extent possible pursuant to law should this occur.

Your responsibility for your password and email address

To become a registered user, you must provide a password and an email address. You are entirely responsible if you do not maintain the confidentiality of your password and email address. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your email address. You may change your password at any time by following instructions under Settings. You may also delete services attached to your registration at your convenience.

You agree to immediately notify SEEK of any unauthorized use of your email address or any other breach of security known to you.

No misrepresentations allowed

You agree that it is a condition on your use of the SEEK Site and of any other services provided by SEEK or through the Site that you will not through any act or omission (including but not limited to creating a profile on the SEEK Site) mislead or deceive others.

General provisions

If any part of this agreement is held invalid that part shall be severed from this agreement and the remainder of this agreement will continue to be valid and enforceable.

Termination of this agreement will not end those provisions that are capable of surviving the ending of this agreement.

The laws governing this agreement will be the laws in New Zealand and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of its Courts and its Appellate Courts.

For the purposes of this agreement the words “SEEK”, “SEEK Limited”, “We”, “Our” and “Us” refer to SEEK Limited and “Site” to materials delivered on www.seek.co.nz and other co-branded versions of the site.