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AfriCareers Terms of Service

Last Updated: 19th March 2024

What is AfriCareers?

AfriCareers is your online career coach and employment service with a social twist. With AfriCareers, users can dream about the future, plan their careers ahead, learn new skills and competencies and to find jobs that match with their unique talent and profile. For employers, AfriCareers allows them to attract talent, find candidates that match with their requirements, conduct headhunting and continuously keep their staff skills up to date with the job market demands.

What are these terms about?

These AfriCareers Service Terms together with the Privacy Policy and information that may be provided within the Service (collectively "Terms") govern Your (later on referred to as "You", "Your" or "End User") use of the service, site, content and software (collectively the "Service"). By registering for or using the Service or any portion of it You accept the Terms. These terms can be accessed on the home page, footer and other selected pages including the Thank you page.

The Terms constitute an agreement between You and AfriCareers including its affiliates and suppliers (collectively "AfriCareers"), defining Your ("End User") and AfriCareers’ rights and responsibilities with respect to the Service.

You may use the Service only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations.

Registering or Terminating the use of the service

To use a Service You may need to register and create a AfriCareers account with username and a password. You may need to provide us with certain personal information or information about the Organization you represent. AfriCareers may verify Your email address before account can be used or AfriCareers may use SMS based verification service to confirm Your identity. In case of Organizations, AfriCareers may additionally validate the company identity (Company ID, Tax ID and alike) with the help of local authorities.

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The creation of a AfriCareers Account will require data transmission. Data transmission costs may apply and are borne by the End User.

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You agree to provide truthful and complete information when You register for the Service and to keep that information updated to Your best ability. Truthful information helps You to take full benefit of the Service. You must take due care to protect Your username and password against misuse by others and promptly notify AfriCareers about any misuse. You, and Your parent or legal guardian, if You are a minor, are personally responsible for any use of the Service.

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You may terminate Your registration if You no longer wish to use the Service by contacting AfriCareers user support or by sending an email to info@africareers.net. Termination means that You will no longer have access to the Service. AfriCareers may terminate Your registration or restrict Your access to certain parts of the Service if AfriCareers reasonably believes that You have breached the Terms or with prior notice if You have not used the service over the past six (6) months.

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Except as set forth in the Privacy Policy, AfriCareers is not responsible for any removal or loss of the information or content You have submitted to the Service. When information or content is removed from the Service by either You or AfriCareers, traces or copies may still remain elsewhere.

Who owns and what?

AfriCareers grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license, revocable at any time at AfriCareers’ sole discretion, to access and use the Service strictly in accordance with the Terms. Use of the Service does not grant You any intellectual property rights in or to any information or content in the Service.

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As part of the Service, AfriCareers may provide You with content developed by AfriCareers or third parties that is owned by AfriCareers and accessed within the Service ("AfriCareers Content") or provide access to third party content ("External Content") provided by Organizations using the Service or third party platforms such as YouTube. Content covering both AfriCareers Content and External Content is referred to as "Content". AfriCareers grants You a non-exclusive and perpetual license to use AfriCareers Content for the purpose it is intended, unless otherwise defined in the applicable Terms or the purchase order. Some AfriCareers Content may have geographical restrictions. You are bound by any restrictions applicable to specific AfriCareers Content You obtain through the Service. Any license acquired to third-party AfriCareers Content is a binding agreement between You and the third-party AfriCareers Content provider. You have only the rights to the AfriCareers Content which are expressly granted here. With regards to External Content AfriCareers claims no ownership of content that is accessed through AfriCareers, but operated from a third party platform.

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As part of the Service, AfriCareers may provide You with a mobile application or client developed by AfriCareers ("App"). Your use of App may be subject to separate terms and conditions that You must accept before using the App. If there are no separate terms and conditions applicable to such App, the following terms apply: AfriCareers grants to You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use the App on Your computer and/or mobile device. You may not distribute, transfer the right to use, modify, translate, reproduce, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of or make derivative works of the App. For open source licensed software, applicable open source license terms apply.

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You, as Individual or representative of an Organization, may be able to submit information or other types of digital content, such as photos, logos, other forms of trademarks, video, audio or text ("Data") relevant to You or Your Organization to the Service. AfriCareers does not claim ownership in Your Data, unless agreed upon through separate agreement. Your submission of Data does not transfer ownership of rights of the Data to AfriCareers. AfriCareers is only transmitting the Data and is not responsible for editorial control over it. By submitting Data to the Service You grant AfriCareers a world-wide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, assignable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, copy, publicly perform, display, distribute in any media and modify the Data to incorporate the Data into other works, and to grant similar sublicenses to the extent necessary for AfriCareers to provide the Service. You may be able to adjust this grant in the privacy and other settings of the Service.

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You are solely responsible for taking backup copies of the data You store on the Service, including Content You upload. If the Service is discontinued or canceled, AfriCareers may permanently delete Your data. AfriCareers has no obligation to return data to You after the Service is discontinued or canceled.

What are the do's and don'ts?

You agree to:

 

  • Comply with applicable laws, the Terms and good manners;

  • As Individual, use the Service (including Courses) only for Your personal, career development related purposes;

  • As Organization, use the Service to identify, develop and foster professional talent or to promote your Organization;

  • As Individual, keep only one user account, and keep its information up to date and truthful;

  • As Organization, ensure that the account information is up to date and truthful;

  • As Individual, not send job applications or conduct tests on behalf of somebody else or otherwise use somebody else’s user account or identity on AfriCareers Service;

  • As Organization, not publish campaigns, news updates or other content that is meant to mislead or scam Individual users or other Organizations;

  • Not submit unlawful, offensive, inaccurate, misleading, abusive, pornographic, harassing, libelous or otherwise inappropriate Data;

  • Obtain any consents, permission or licenses that may be legally required for You to submit any Data;

  • Respect the privacy of others;

  • Not distribute or post spam, unreasonably large files, chain letters, pyramid schemes, viruses; or

  • Not use any other technologies or initiate other activities that may harm the Service, or the interest or property of the Service users;

  • Not to use any automated systems or means to access, acquire, copy or monitor any part of the service.

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AfriCareers may, but has no obligation to:

  • Monitor or moderate any Content or Data;

  • Remove any Data from the Service;

  • Restrict access to any part of the Service at any time in its sole discretion; and

  • Block Users from accessing the Service in case violation of these Terms.

Refunds and Cancellation

We offer a 14-day money back guarantee on our services / products purchased via our website and a refund will be issued if:

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  1. You have requested it within the 14-day cooling off period.

  2. The 14-day cooling off period begins from the day you made the purchase.

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Once your access to the paid service has been removed, you will not be able to access any part of the service, or receive a digital or printed form.

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If you change your mind, you are eligible for a full refund if you cancel your order within 14 days or over the free trial period.

 

​Orders for Products to be fulfilled by a third party (“Third Party Products”)

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If you change your mind:

If you have purchased a Third-Party Product for sale through africareers.net Website, including, for example, an assessment or examination offered and administered by third party providers, your contract for sale is made directly between you and the third-party seller.

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Before your order is processed and forwarded to the third-party seller, we may in certain circumstances be able to cancel and process a refund if you do not meet the eligibility criteria or if you have purchased the Third-Party Product in error and notify us promptly. In all other events and for orders that have been processed and forwarded to the third-party seller, please refer to the third-party seller’s refunds policy.

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How to request a refund

To request a refund or cancellation, contact us at info@africareers.net with your email address and invoice number.

 

When and how we issue refunds

Upon determining that a cancellation or refund is due to you under these Terms, we will issue such refund or cancellation within 30 days of:

  • our receipt of the returned Product(s); or our confirmation that such refund or cancellation is due to you otherwise than through return of the Products.

 

For Products which earn a reward through our refer-a-friend scheme, the following additional refund terms apply:

  • any rewards will be revoked if a refund is issued on the order for which the reward was offered; once a reward is used you are no longer eligible for a refund on the order for which the reward was offered.

  • If you are entitled to a refund we will refund you on the credit card or debit card used by you to pay for the Product(s).

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