Terms and Conditions
This website, Surveyor Jobs, is operated by Hemming Group Limited (company number 490200 – registered in England and Wales), whose registered office is at 32 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SS (‘Hemming Group Limited, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’).
By using the website, and in consideration of Hemming Group Limited allowing you access to it, you accept and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions ("Terms"). From time to time we may modify the Terms, so please continue to review them whenever accessing or using the website. You may only use this website if you agree to these terms and conditions and by continuing to use this website you are agreeing to these terms and conditions.
All copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights used as part of the website are vested in Hemming Group Limited and its licensors.
You acquire no rights or licences in or to the website other than the limited right to use the website solely in accordance with these terms and conditions.
Other than as set out below, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, or in any other way exploit any part of the website.
You may not use any part of the website to construct a database of any kind.
Whilst we try to ensure that the information on this site is accurate and complete, we do not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the information on this site. We advise you to verify the accuracy of any information before relying on it.
Links to other sites
You may be offered automatic links to other sites which we hope you will be interested in. Hemming Group Limited does not accept any responsibility for the content of those sites, the owners of which do not necessarily have any link, commercial or otherwise with Hemming Group Limited.
We reserve the right at any time without notice to enhance, modify, alter, or suspend the website and to terminate or restrict your access to the website
You agree to comply with the general terms and conditions of use for our website which can be found above.
These Terms are governed English law and the English Courts shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction.
Additional Information for Advertisers/Recruiters
Surveyor Jobs (‘the site’) is the primary choice for all the best positions in the highways and transportation sector, and related environmental disciplines. As with all advertising mediums, we do not guarantee response rates. Response rates can vary from week to week and may also be affected by the quality of your job copy.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your employer account, Profile and passwords, as applicable. You may not share your password or other account access information with any other party, temporarily or permanently, and You shall be responsible for all uses of your Surveyor Jobs registrations and passwords, whether or not authorised by you. You agree to immediately notify Hemming Group Limited of any unauthorized use of your employer account, profile, or passwords.
Employers are solely responsible for their postings on Surveyor Jobs. Hemming Group Limited is not to be considered to be an employer with respect to your use of Surveyor Jobs and Hemming Group Limited shall not be responsible for any employment decisions, for whatever reason, made by any entity posting jobs on Surveyor Jobs.
You understand and acknowledge that if you cancel your employer account or your employer account is terminated, all your account information, including saved CVs, network contacts, and email mailing lists, will be marked as deleted in and may be deleted from Hemming Group Limited’s databases. Information may continue to be available for some period of time because of delays in propagating such deletion through Hemming Group Limited’s web servers.
Product terms
Recruiters purchase credits on Surveyor Jobs enabling them to post job advertisements, promote these jobs advertisements and purchase candidate CV views. The credit term is 12 months starting from the date of invoice after which they expire.
A job posting is an advertisement for a job vacancy that will be placed on Surveyor Jobs. Job postings, including promoted job advertisements, appear on the site for a period of 28 days on posting.
Each job posting may include one job description, a location or locations, a job sector or sectors, a recruiter logo displayed with the job listing and a salary band.
A promoted job listing means the advertisement appears as a ‘featured job’ on the Surveyor Jobs home page, randomised with other promoted jobs listings, and highlighted in relevant candidate searches. The recruiter agrees that all postings that it displays on Surveyor Jobs will relate to specific live job positions and will not be stock or generic job descriptions.
Job postings
A Job posting may not contain:
(a) any hyperlinks, other than those specifically authorized by Hemming Group Limited;
(b) misleading, unreadable, or ‘hidden’ keywords, repeated keywords or keywords that are irrelevant to the job opportunity being presented, as determined in Hemming Group Limited’s reasonable discretion;
(c) the names, logos or trademarks of unaffiliated companies other than those of your customer save where expressly agreed by Hemming Group Limited;
(d) the names of colleges, cities, states, towns or countries that are unrelated to the posting;
(e) more than one job or job description, more than one location, or more than one job category, unless the product so allows;
(f) inaccurate, false, or misleading information; and
(g) material or links to material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or other manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18.
You may not use your Surveyor Jobs posting to:
(a) post jobs in a manner that does not comply with applicable local, national and international laws, including but not limited to laws relating to labour and employment, equal employment opportunity and employment eligibility requirements, data privacy, data access and use, and intellectual property;
(b) post jobs that require citizenship of any particular country or lawful permanent residence in a country as a condition of employment, unless otherwise required in order to comply with law, regulations, executive order, or federal, state or local government contract;
(c) post jobs that include any screening requirement or criterion in connection with a job posting where such requirement or criterion is not an actual and legal requirement of the posted job;
(d) post jobs or other advertisements for competitors of Hemming Group Limited or post jobs or other content that contains links to any site competitive with Hemming Group Limited;
(e) sell, promote or advertise products or services;
(f) post any franchise, pyramid scheme, ‘club membership’, distributorship, multi-level marketing opportunity, or sales representative agency arrangement;
(g) post any business opportunity that requires an up front or periodic payment or requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents;
(h) post any business opportunity that pays commission only unless the posting clearly states that the available job pays commission only and clearly describes the product or service that the job seeker would be selling;
(i) promote any opportunity that does not represent bona fide employment;
(j) post jobs on Surveyor Jobs for modeling, acting, talent or entertainment agencies or talent scouting positions;
(k) advertise sexual services or seek employees for jobs of a sexual nature;
(l) request the use of human body parts or the donation of human parts, including, without limitation, reproductive services such as egg donation and surrogacy;
(m) endorse a particular political party, political agenda, political position or issue;
(n) promote a particular religion;
(o) except where allowed by applicable law, post jobs which require the applicant to provide information relating to his/her (i) racial or ethnic origin (ii) political beliefs(iii) philosophical or religious beliefs (iv) membership of a trade union (v) physical or mental health (vi) sexual life (vii) the commission of criminal offences or proceedings or (vii) age.
Customer apply direct option is a service that allows the customer to redirect their job seekers from a Surveyor Jobs posting to a website not hosted by Hemming Group Lim ed and reserves the right in its sole discretion to reject the linking of recruiter’s job postings to websites which are deemed unsuitable.
The recruiters acknowledges that job postings on Surveyor Jobs also appear in search results on other websites owned or affiliated with Hemming Group Limited, including websites co-branded with third parties.
Other advertising
Other advertising opportunities are available on Surveyor Jobs, defined as time based advertising.
These take the form of banners, skyscraper and tile advertisements running across the site, and a Job of the Week position on the site home page. Banners and tiles on Surveyor Jobs display a number of different advertisements on a rotating basis. The terms of time-based advertising are as set out in the sales order.
Recruiters can also opt to have banner and tile advertisements appearing on jobs-by-email bulletins under the terms set out in the sales order.
Positioning of tile advertisements on Surveyor Jobs and associated email services is at Hemming Group Limited’s discretion.
Recruiter profile: A recruiter profile is a profile of the recruiter’s company and/or business which is designed to strengthen customer’s brand and inform and educate potential clients and employees. Recruiters can include a profile with its job postings.
Hemming Group Limited does not warrant the date or dates of insertion of the advertisement(s) and does not warrant that the advertisement(s) will not be displayed after the end date specified. However, Hemming Group Limited will use reasonable efforts to comply with customer’s request in this regard. Upon termination of this agreement, Hemming Group Limited will uninstall the customer’s advertisement, and terminate the hyperlink to customer’s advertised site.
Hemming Group Limited reserves the right to remove any job posting or content from Surveyor Jobs, which in the reasonable exercise of Hemming Group Limited’s discretion, does not comply with the above terms, or if any content is posted that Hemming Group Limited believes is not in the best interest of Hemming Group Limited.
If at any time during your use of Surveyor Jobs, you made a misrepresentation of fact to Hemming Group Limited or otherwise misled Hemming Group Limited in regards to the nature of your business activities, Hemming Group Limited will have grounds to terminate your use of the Surveyor Jobs.
CV Database
Use of the Hemming Group Limited CV Database by Recruiters
Customers can purchase credits entitling them to down load candidate’s CVs held in the Hemming Group Limted CV database. You shall use the Hemming Group Limited CV database as provided in these terms and in any contract you have with Hemming Group Limited. You shall use the Hemming Group Limited CV database in accordance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws, and you agree you shall not further disclose any of the data from Hemming Group Limited CV database to any third party, unless you are an authorised recruitment agency, staffing agency, advertising or other agency or using the CV explicitly for employment purposes.
You shall take appropriate physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect the data you have obtained from Hemming Group Limited CV database from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
The Hemming Group Limited CV Database shall not be used:
(a) for any purpose other than as an employer seeking employees, including but not limited to advertising promotions, products, or services to any CV holders;
(b) to make unsolicited phone calls or faxes or send unsolicited mail, email, or newsletters to CV holders or to contact any individual unless they have agreed to be contacted (where consent is required or, if express consent is not required, who has informed you that they do not want to be contacted); or
In order to ensure a safe and effective experience for all of our customers, Hemming Group Limited reserves the right to limit the amount of data (including CV views) that may be accessed by you in any given time period. These limits may be amended in Hemming Group Limited’s sole discretion from time to time.
Additional Terms Applicable to Job Seekers.
When you register with Surveyor Jobs, you will be asked to create an account and provide Hemming Group Limited with certain information including, without limitation, a valid email address (your "information").
Any profile you submit must be accurate and describe you, an individual person. The profile requires standard fields to be completed although contact details will not be available to recruiters. However, these details will be contained only on your CV, which you may choose to make available to recruiters through Surveyor Jobs.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the form, content and accuracy of any CV or material contained therein placed by you on Surveyor Jobs.
Hemming Group Limited reserves the right to offer third party services and products to you based on the preferences that you identify in your registration and at any time thereafter or you have agreed to receive, such offers may be made by Hemming Group Limited or by third parties.
You understand and acknowledge that you have no ownership rights in your account and that if you cancel your Surveyor Jobs account or Surveyor Jobs account is terminated, all your account information from Hemming Group Limited, including CVs, profiles, cover letters, saved jobs, questionnaires will be marked as deleted in and may be deleted from Hemming Group Limited 's databases and will be removed from any public area of the Surveyor Jobs. Information may continue to be available for some period of time because of delays in propagating such deletion through Hemming Group Limited’s web servers. In addition, third parties may retain saved copies of your information.
Applications and Correspondence with recruiters and/or employment agencies (third parties). Recruiters and/or Employment Agencies should never ask for money to arrange a meeting or referral. Jobseekers should not send any money. If you receive such correspondence, please inform us immediately, as this is a breach of our terms and conditions.
Hemming Group Limited reserves the right to delete your account and all of your information after a significant duration of inactivity.
Cancellation Policy
Hemming Group Limited does not accept any cancellation during the agreed contract dates clearly stated on the contract. Upon receipt of the signed agreement, the customer has by law legally entered into a legally binding contract.
PRIVACY
Information we collect from our customers and users of our websites may be used in the following ways.
1. Subscription Services
Personal information provided as part of the registration/subscription process for any publication, product or service is used to manage your access and to enable us to provide a better service.
2. Payment details
Any information provided by you in connection with any transaction regarding your credit or debit card numbers, expiry date and billing or delivery address will be used by World Pay to process the transaction. Hemming Group Limited does not store credit card details.
3. Contact details
We will use contact details provided by you as part of any registration process (i.e. your name, job title, telephone and fax number and your e-mail and postal addresses) to provide any product or services requested by you and also to tell you about important changes to relevant registration/subscription services and their functionality.
Contact details will be used by Hemming Group Limited to provide you with information about other services and products which may interest you and be disclosed to third party businesses and advertisers for the same purpose only if you have given us permission to do so.
4. Voluntary Information
We may ask for further information about you as part of online surveys or if you enter any competition or other promotional feature. This information will be used to enable us to improve the relevant publication, product or service and may also be disclosed to other companies as specified in the relevant promotion.
5. Statistical information
Aggregate statistical information provided by us to our advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage will not include personally identifying information.
6. Security
Your personal data will be held on a secure server. Our sites are equipped with security and firewall software.
7. Access to Data
Under the Data Protection Act 1988. You have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases. You should write to us, attn Company Secretary at the following address: Hemming Group Limited, 32 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SS. stating your full name, your address and any of our publications or services to which you know you subscribe. An administrative charge may be made for fulfilling this request.
8. Cookies
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie folder of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. For more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. The following types of cookie are used on this website:
Session Cookies - These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. We use them to maintain your login (so that you stay logged-in until you wish to log out or the session times out), and to remember your preferences for things like forms and searches. If you disable these cookies, you will not be able to stay logged in, you will never be able to see more than the first page of your search results, and you will not be able to register a login for the first time. You have the ability to accept or decline these cookies by modifying the settings in your browser.
Our session cookies contain the following information:
· Name: JSESSIONID
· Content: RANDOM STRING
· Host: LocalGov.co.uk
· Path: /
· Secure server: no
· Expires: at end of session (this is 30 mins or when you close your browser)
No personal or identifying information is held in these cookies. As soon as you leave our sites or close your browser, they are automatically deleted from your computer.
Persistent Cookies - These are cookies which remain in the cookie file of your browser for a much longer period, though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie. We occasionally set persistent cookies to manage the number of times a day you will see subscription pop-up ads. If you disable these cookies, you will be served both the entry and exit pop-up ad on every page you visit rather than just once each per day. You have the ability to accept or decline these cookies by modifying the settings in your browser.
The cookies are ns_entry and ns_exit and they contain the following information:
· Name: ns_entry or ns_exit
· Content: 1
· Domain: .LocalGov.co.uk
· Path: /
· Secure server: no
· Expires: Every 24 hours
Again, no personal or identifying information is held in these cookies.
Third Party Cookies - In addition, the third party companies who sell and provide advertisements to the site and host our contacts database make use of cookies for the purpose of serving and targeting advertisements more effectively. These are used for the following purposes:
· To serve advertisements on our site and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users.
· To control how often you are shown a particular advertisement.
· To tailor content to your preferences such as geographical location.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.
Instructions are given below for the most popular browsers.
If your browser is not on this list and you require help with your cookie settings then please email our technical support team.
AOL browsers
Some versions of the AOL browser do not accept session cookies at all. We strongly recommend using another browser, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, to access the LocalGov web network
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and above
· Select "Internet Options" from the Tools menu.
· On the 'Privacy" tab click the "Sites" button
· Type in the "Address of Web Site" box:
· ' LocalGov.co.uk',
· 'adtech.de' to regulate popups
· Press ALLOW or BLOCK as preferred.
· Apply the settings and close all Internet Explorer windows.
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
· Select "Internet Options" from the Tools menu.
· Click on the "Privacy" tab.
· Click "Custom Level" button.
· Scroll down to the "Cookies" section.
· Set "Allow cookies that are stored on your computer" to "Enable" or "Disable" as preferred.
· Set "Allow per-session cookies" to Enable" or "Disable" as preferred.
· Click "OK".
· Firefox 1.0
· Select 'Preferences' from the 'Edit' menu
· Click the 'Advanced' link
· Scroll down to the 'Cookies' section
· To enable cookies select 'Accept all cookies' (or 'Enable all cookies')
· To stop cookies being sent to your PC, select 'Reject all cookies' (or 'Disable all cookies')
· Click 'OK'
· Netscape 7.x
· Select 'Preferences' from the 'Edit' menu
· Double click the 'Privacy & Security' link so you can see all the sub-menus
· Click the 'cookies' link
· To enable cookies select 'Enable cookies based on privacy settings' (or 'Enable all cookies')
· To stop cookies being sent to your PC, select 'Disable cookies'
· Click 'OK'
· Netscape Communicator 4.x
· Select "Preferences" from the Edit menu.
· Find the "Cookies" section in the "Advanced" category.
· To allow cookies, select "Accept all cookies" (or "Enable all cookies").
· To stop cookies, select 'Reject all cookies' (or 'Disable all cookies')
· Click "OK".
· Opera 7.0
· Select 'Preferences' from the 'File' menu
· Click the 'Privacy' link
· To enable cookies click the box next to 'Enable cookies'
· To stop cookies being sent to your PC, uncheck the box next to 'Enable cookies'
· Click 'OK'
· Safari 1.0
· Click Safari on the top menu.
· Select Preferences.
· Make sure the Security tab is selected.
· Next to 'Accept Cookies' select ‘Never’
Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted here. Last updated: 1st November 2006
Other Information
Hemming Group Limited will monitor overall traffic levels to the website with automated monitoring traffic software. The software makes use of cookies to gather information about users’ movement around the site. This enables us to understand how the site is used and to make improvements. The information we gather by use of cookies does not include personally identifying information.
In addition, the third party companies who sell and provide advertisements to the site make use of cookies for the purpose of serving and targeting advertisements more effectively. For more information about these cookies, how you can opt out of receiving them and how this will affect your use of websites, see the section on cookies above.
Statistical information
Aggregate statistical information provided by us to our advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage will not include personally identifying information.
Privacy disclaimer
Hemming Group Limited is not responsible for the use of information sent by you to third parties or for privacy policies of the merchant (3rd party) websites that reside within Hemming Group Limited and therefore cannot guarantee that your information will not be passed to another unidentified party.
You use the information and links at your own risk.
While we use our reasonable endeavours to ensure the accuracy of information uploaded by us to the website, we take no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the content of this website, or for the representations made by other parties and included on the website.
Hemming Group Limited takes no responsibility for the content of other websites that link from Surveyor Jobs.
Customer Feedback and Complaints
We welcome your questions and comments about privacy issues and the design of our web site. Should you have such comments or have a complaint about how we are using your personal data, please send an e-mail to the Surveyor Jobs Team.
COPYRIGHT
1. Main copyright notices:
Save where otherwise specified, the contents of all the pages in Surveyor Jobs are © Hemming Group Limited 2010.
Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions.
You may make an electronically stored, transient copy of these web pages for the purpose of viewing them online only.
2. Licence to copy to paper, hard disk or diskette for personal use:
You may print (where a print option is given) or you may download the contents of an individual page where that option is provided by Surveyor Jobs for the purpose of private use. However, you may only make one copy thereof.
3. Copying for commercial purposes is prohibited:
Reproduction of the whole or any part of the contents of the pages contained in this website in any form for purposes other than private and personal use (including, without limitation, for commercial purposes) is prohibited.
4. Prohibition against distributing/displaying/recopying the material to third parties:
You may not distribute, display or copy the contents of the pages contained in this website to third parties.
5. General exclusions from licence:
This licence to copy does not permit incorporation of the material or any part of it in any other work or publication, whether in hard copy or electronic or any other form. In particular (but without limitation) no part of Surveyor Job’s web pages may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose.
6. RSS feeds:
Copyright applies to RSS feeds generated by Surveyor Jobs. The use of these feeds is subject to their respective terms and conditions.
7. Exclusion of liability:
The information contained in the pages of this website is for information purposes. Whilst every care has been taken in its preparation, Hemming Group Limited does not make any warranties or representation as to its accuracy or reliability. We neither accept nor assume any responsibility for keeping the information in these pages up to date or liability for any failure to do so.
In no event do we accept liability of any description including liability for negligence for any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the viewing, use or performance of this website or its contents.
The pages contained in this website may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors. The information in these pages are regularly updated but may at times be out of date.
We accept no responsibility for keeping the information in these pages up to date or liability for any failure to do so.
8. Applicable law and jurisdiction:
Use of this website shall be made subject only to the laws of England which shall exclusively govern the interpretation, application and effect of all the above permissions, exclusions, licences and conditions of use.
