Overview

This page states the terms of use (“Terms”) under which you (“You”) may use our DOBE. Please read them carefully as they affect Your rights and liabilities under the law. If You do not agree to these Terms, please do not register for an account or use our websites and apps. These Terms are effective on the date they are published on our websites and apps.

Binding agreement and variations

• a).

  Our websites and apps are provided to you for your use subject to these Terms. These Terms form a binding agreement between you and us. By accessing or using our websites and apps you agree to accept and be bound by these Terms.
• b).

  We may update these Terms from time to time and the updated version will apply to you. Our current Terms will be accessible through our websites and apps.
• c).

  If we reasonably believe that changes to these Terms will be materially detrimental to Users, we will provide a notice on our websites and / or apps 30 days prior to the changes taking effect.
• d).

  If you do not wish to accept the new Terms, you should not continue to use our websites and apps. If you continue to use our websites and apps, your use will indicate your agreement to be bound by the new Terms.
• e).

  Your use of our Services (including our websites and apps) may be subject to another agreement/s with a Group entity (e.g. the Advertising Terms of Use). In the case of any conflict between these Terms and any other such agreement/s, the other agreement/s will prevail.

Registration

• a).

  To register an account on our websites and apps you must be capable of entering into a legally binding contract in the country in which you live.
• b).

  You must ensure that the details provided by you to us on registration (or at any time) are correct and complete.
• c).

  You must inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering by updating your personal details so that we can communicate with you effectively.

Password and security

• a).

  When you register an account through our websites and apps you will be asked to create a password or, in the case of a Candidate account, you may register using your Google or Facebook logins or Apple ID details (“Login Details”). In order to prevent fraud, you must keep your Login Details confidential and must not disclose them or share them with anyone. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your Login Details or any other breach of security that is relevant to us.
• b).

  If we have reason to believe that there is likely to be a breach of security or misuse of our websites and apps, we may require you to change your Login Details or we may suspend your account.
• c).

  You are entirely responsible if you do not maintain the confidentiality of your Login Details. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur within or through your account. You may change your password at any time by following the instructions in ‘Settings’. You may also delete services attached to your registration at your convenience.
• d).

  If you do not maintain the confidentiality of your Login Details:

  • i.

    all resulting losses or damage incurred by us or you shall be borne by you;
  • ii.

    you shall fully indemnify us should we suffer any loss or damage.

Availability of our websites and apps

• a).

  Although we aim to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that our websites and apps will meet your requirements.
• b).

  We cannot guarantee that our websites and apps will be uninterrupted, fault-free, error-free, or that our websites and apps and servers are free of viruses or other harmful mechanisms. If a fault occurs with our websites and apps you should report it to us and we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we can.
• c).

  Your access to our websites and apps may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new content, facilities or services. We will attempt to restore access and/or service as soon as we reasonably can.
• d).

  You also understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant to you that files available for downloading through our websites and apps or delivered via electronic mail through our websites and apps 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 our websites and apps for the reconstruction of any lost data.

Your use of our websites and apps

• a).

  We hereby grant you a limited, terminable, non-exclusive right to access and use our websites and apps only for your personal use and/or employment purposes.
• b).

  You may not use our websites and apps for any of the following purposes:

  • i.

    disseminating any unlawful, illegally discriminatory, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material or otherwise breaching any laws;
  • ii.

    aggregating, copying or duplicating in any manner any of the Content or information available from any of our websites and apps, including expired job postings;
  • iii.

    reproducing any of the Content for general use;
  • iv.

    link to any Content or information available from any of our websites and apps unless we permit otherwise;
  • v.

    transmitting material that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offence, or otherwise breaches any applicable laws, regulations or codes of practice;
  • vi.

    interfering with any other person’s use or enjoyment of our websites and apps;
  • vii.

    making, transmitting or storing electronic copies of materials protected by copyright without the permission of the owner.
• c).

  You agree not to resell or assign your rights or obligations under these Terms. You also agree not to make any unauthorised commercial use of our websites and apps.
• d).

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

Your use of our Services

All Users agree to not:

• a).

  transmit, post, distribute, store or destroy material, including without limitation Content, in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including but not limited to laws or regulations governing the collection, processing, or transfer of personal information, or in breach of our Privacy Policy;
• b).

  violate or attempt to violate the security of any of our websites and apps, including, without limitation, accessing data not intended for them or logging into a server or account which they are not authorised to access, attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or attempting to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorisation, attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network or sending unsolicited e-mails, including promotions and/or advertisements for products or services. Violations of system or network security may result in civil and/or criminal liability. We will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations;
• c).

  reverse engineer or decompile any parts of any of our websites and apps;
• d).

  aggregate, copy or duplicate in any matter any of the Content or information available from any of our websites and apps, including expired job postings, other than as permitted by these Terms or another agreement we have with you;
• e).

  post any content or material that facilitates, promotes or endorses scams, false or misleading information or illegal activities, OR endorses or provides instructional information about illegal activities or other activities prohibited by these Terms, such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, providing or creating computer viruses or pirating media, OR promotes or endorses any political views;
• f).

  post any profile, resume or apply for any job on behalf of another party;
• g).

  share with a third party any login credentials to any of our websites and apps;
• h).

  access data not intended for you or logging into a server or account which you are not authorised to access;
• i).

  post or submit to any of our websites and apps any inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, false, not up to date biographical information or information which is not your own;
• j).

  post content that contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
• k).

  solicit Login Details from other Users;
• l).

  delete or alter any material posted by any other person or entity;
• m).

  harass, incite harassment or advocate harassment of any group, company or individual;
• n).

  send unsolicited mail or email, make unsolicited phone calls or send unsolicited faxes promoting and/or advertising products or services to any User, or contact any Users o). that have specifically requested not to be contacted by you;
• o).

  attempt to interfere with service to any User, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to any of our websites and apps, overloading, “flooding”, “spamming”, “mailbombing”, or “crashing” (or similar activity);
• p).

  use our Services for any unlawful purpose or illegal activity, or post or submit any content, profile, resume, or job posting that is defamatory, libelous, implicitly or explicitly offensive, vulgar, obscene, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, racist, illegally discriminatory, of a menacing character or likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience, embarrassment, anxiety or could cause harassment to any person or include any links to pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind, as determined at our discretion;
• q).

  post any profile or resume which is not a genuine profile or resume and which attempts to advertise or promote products or services.

Our right to suspend or cancel your account registration

• a).

  We may suspend or cancel your Candidate account registration immediately at our reasonable discretion or if you breach any of your obligations under these Terms.
• b).

  You can cancel your Candidate account registration at any time.
• c).

  The suspension or cancellation of your Candidate account registration and your right to use our websites and apps shall not affect either party’s statutory rights or liabilities.
• d).

  If you have an employer account with us, the Advertising Terms of Use determine the circumstances in which we can suspend or cancel your account.

Our liability

• a).

  Our websites and apps (which includes our Services) act primarily as venues for:

  • i.

    Employers or their agents to post job opportunities and search for and evaluate job candidates;
  • ii.

    Candidates to create Profiles and search for, evaluate and apply to job opportunities;
  • iii.

    Advertisers to post their advertisements.
• b).

  To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for User Content, the quality, safety or legality of the jobs or resumes posted, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of Employers to offer job opportunities to Candidates or the ability of Candidates to fill job openings and we make no representations about any jobs, Profiles, resumes or User Content on our websites and apps.
• c).

  We do not endorse or recommend any of the jobs, business or self-employment opportunities advertised on our websites and apps and we strongly recommend that prior to entering into any agreement with any of the Advertisers on our websites and apps, 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 our websites and apps or on the internet generally.
• d).

  We reserve the right in our sole discretion to remove any User Content including but not limited to Profiles or other material from our websites and apps from time to time (acting reasonably). We may remove User Content of an employer in accordance with the Advertising Terms of Use.
• e).

  Our websites and apps also provide content from other internet sites or resources and while we try to ensure that material included on our websites and apps is correct, reputable and of high quality, we do not make any warranties or guarantees in relation to that content. If we are informed of any inaccuracies in the material on our websites and apps we will attempt to correct the inaccuracies as soon as we reasonably can.
• f).

  Note that there are risks, including but not limited to the risk of physical harm, of dealing with strangers, underage persons or people acting under false pretences. You assume all risks associated with dealing with other Users with whom you come in contact through our websites and apps. Other people’s information may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases may be mislabelled or deceptively labelled. We expect that you will use caution and common sense when using our websites and apps.
• g).

  Our websites and apps and Content may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. We make no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of any of our websites and apps or the Content. The use of any of our websites and apps and the Content is at your own risk.
• h).

  Nothing on our websites and apps shall be considered an endorsement, representation or warranty with respect to any User or third party, whether in regards to its websites, products, services, hiring, experience, employment or recruiting practices, or otherwise.
• i).

  While we take 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 our systems or on our websites and apps. We disclaim all liability to you to the greatest extent possible pursuant to law should this occur.
• j).

  If we are in breach of these Terms or have any other legal liability to you (to the extent it cannot be excluded under law), we will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a direct result and to the extent that they are a foreseeable consequence to both of us at the time you use our websites and apps. Our liability shall not in any event include business losses such as lost data, lost profits or business interruption.
• k).

  To the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of a term (whether implied or otherwise) which cannot be excluded by law, is limited at our option to either, the supply of the products or services (or the equivalent products or services) again or the payment of the cost of having the products or services supplied again.
• l).

  In the event we cannot exclude liability under law, the aggregate liability of the Dobe Group to you for all claims arising from your use of our websites and apps and/or our Services shall be limited to AUD100. Some jurisdictions do not allow such limitations of liability, so the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.

Disclaimers

• a).

  We shall not be liable for any loss of information howsoever caused as a result of any interruption, suspension or termination of our Services or for Content, accuracy or quality of information available or transmitted through our Services.
• b).

  You acknowledge and agree that it is not our policy to exercise editorial control over and to edit or amend any data or contents of any emails or posting or any information that may be inserted or made available or transmitted to or from a third party in or through our websites and apps and/or our Services.

International Use & Translation

• a).

  We make no promise that materials on our websites and apps are appropriate or available for use in your location, and accessing our websites and apps from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access our websites and apps from your location, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
• b).

  These Terms may be translated into the local language in the relevant territory. In the event of a conflict between the Terms in the English language version and the localised version, the English language version shall prevail. The localised version shall be deemed to be automatically amended to conform with and made consistent with the English language version.