Terms and Conditions

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using this site

Lilac Jobs Ltd

What’s in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website lilacjobs.co.uk (our site).

Who we are and how to contact us

lilacjobs.co.uk is a site operated by Lilac Jobs Ltd (“We” or “Lilac Jobs”). We are registered in Scotland under company number SC768202 and have our registered office at 30 & 34 Reform Street, Dundee, DD1 1RJ. To contact us, please email info@lilacjobs.co.uk

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

What we do

Lilac Jobs offers an online platform for the hosting of advertisements relating to temporary, short term or non-permanent job vacancies aimed at individuals who have retired from their main profession. Lilac Jobs is an intermediary and is not responsible for the job types, salaries or locations of any of the listings on our site. The employment and/or contractual arrangements between the parties in respect of any job offered on the site will be the responsibility of the employer and employee and Lilac Jobs excludes all liability in respect of those matters.

There are other terms that may apply to you.

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • Our Privacy Policy, which outlines how we handle your personal information and data.
  • Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which provides information about the cookies used on our site.

Please review these policies carefully as they govern your interactions with our website.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated in June 2023.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our service, our users’ needs and our business priorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Our site is only for users in the UK

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@lilacjobs.co.uk

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

No Text or Data Mining, or Web Scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

  • Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
  • Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Do Not Rely on Information on This Site

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We Are Not Responsible for Websites We Link To

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-Generated Content is Not Approved by Us

Our site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to social media pages, video-sharing sites, bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

How to Complain About or Report Content

If you wish to complain about any content, please contact us on Contact Us 

Our Responsibility for Loss or Damage Suffered by You

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
– We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents, or subcontractors, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user:
– We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
– We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, delict (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
– Use of, or inability to use, our site; or
– Use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
– In particular, we will not be liable for:
– Loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
– Business interruption;
– Loss of anticipated savings;
– Loss of business opportunity, goodwill, or reputation; or
– Any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

How We May Use Your Personal Information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our 

Uploading Content to Our Site – Business Users

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site or make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited license to use, store, and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site violates their intellectual property rights or right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to contact us regarding content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact us.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offense, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offense, or threaten to commit a terrorist offense.

Rights You Are Giving Us to Use Material You Upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
– A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media (including to promote our site or the service, to expire when the user deletes the content from the site).
– A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license for other users, partners, or advertisers to use the content for their purposes in accordance with the functionality of our site, to expire when the user deletes the content from the site.

We Are Not Responsible for Viruses, and You Must Not Introduce Them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs, and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offense under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Rules About Linking to Our Site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site on any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website to which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy 

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@lilacjobs.co.uk

Which Country’s Laws Apply to Any Disputes?

If you are a consumer, these terms are governed by Scots law, and regardless of where you live, you can bring claims against us in the Scottish courts. If you live in Wales, England, or Northern Ireland, you can also bring claims against us in the courts of the country you reside in. We can claim against you in the courts of the country you reside in.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter, and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by Scots law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES THROUGH THE LILAC JOBS PLATFORM

Background
Lilac Jobs is an online platform aimed at allowing End Users to browse for temporary jobs and be put in touch with a wide range of Employers (“Platform”).
“We” or “we” are Lilac Jobs Ltd, a company incorporated in Scotland (company number SC768202) with our registered office at 30 & 34 Reform Street, Dundee, DD1 1RJ (“Lilac Jobs”). We can be contacted at [insert means of contact via telephone, email, and mail].
“You”, “you” or “Employer” is the entity or individual who contracts to use the Platform, for the purpose of enabling End Users to browse and apply for job vacancies.
For the purposes of these terms and conditions, we and you are each a ‘party’.
These terms and conditions apply to your use of the Platform and by accessing and using the Platform you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, you should not use or access the Platform.

Agreed terms
1. Interpretation

The definitions and rules of interpretation in this clause apply in these terms and conditions.

Additional Terms: the additional terms agreed between Lilac Jobs and the Employer and which shall incorporate (and be deemed to form part of) these terms and conditions.

Authorised Users: means the employees, agents, and other personnel of the Employer who are authorized to use the Platform.

Confidential Information: information that is proprietary or confidential and is either clearly labeled as such or identified as Confidential Information in clause 11.

Data Protection Laws: means all applicable data protection and privacy legislation in force from time to time in the UK including, without limitation, the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“UK GDPR”); the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) (and regulations made thereunder) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426) as amended, and the guidance and codes of practice issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office or other relevant regulatory authority and which are applicable to a party.

End User: any individual who accesses the Platform with a view to browsing or applying for any of the listed vacancies uploaded to the Platform by the Employer.

Initial Subscription Term: means the initial minimum period (as detailed in the Additional Terms) during which the Employer contracts to purchase the Services from Lilac Jobs, on the basis set out in these terms and conditions.

Intellectual Property: means patents, utility models, rights to inventions, copyright and neighboring and related rights, trade marks and service marks, business names and domain names, rights in get-up and trade dress, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in designs, database rights, rights to use, and protect the confidentiality of, confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets), and all other intellectual property rights owned or used by Lilac Jobs, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.

Services: means the provision by Lilac Jobs to the Employer of access to, and the right to use, the Platform for the purposes of posting job vacancies for the benefit of End Users.

Subscription Fees: means the fees payable by the Employer to Lilac Jobs for access to the Platform to allow the Employer to advertise job vacancies.

Term: means the period during which the Services are provided by Lilac Jobs, as set out in the Additional Terms.

2. Our Services

2.1. Subject to you making payment of the sums payable under these terms and conditions and/or the Additional Terms, we will provide the Services to you, on the basis set out in these terms and conditions, in order to permit you to list information regarding your business and the vacancies that you have available on the Platform.
2.2. Although we aim to provide uninterrupted access to the Platform, we do not take responsibility for issues outwith our control (including, without limitation, internet or connection issues). There may also be delays or interruptions from time to time due to our upgrading, modification, or standard maintenance of the Platform. Specifically, we do not guarantee:
(a) the availability of the Platform on each and every device or platform all of the time;
(b) that any technical issues which arise can be resolved quickly; or
(c) that the Platform is error, virus, or bug-free.
2.3. Lilac Jobs shall not be liable for any interruption, delay, or other issue arising from the presence of any virus or malware introduced via an unknown source, and the Employer acknowledges that, in such event, Lilac Jobs may be required (without liability to the Employer)

to suspend the provision of the Services pending resolution of the matter.
2.4. We reserve the right to:
(a) alter, modify or upgrade the Platform (and/or its associated IT systems) in any way and/or to develop or acquire from time to time alternative or replacement systems in order to provide the Services, providing that the performance or functionality of the Platform is not materially diminished or adversely impacted to any material extent as a result thereof; and
(b) amend these terms and conditions from time to time, and your continued use of the Platform (or any part thereof) following such change shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether these terms and conditions have been changed. If you do not agree to any change to the terms and conditions, then you should immediately stop using the Platform.
2.5. For the avoidance of doubt, we shall have no liability for any failure or delay in providing the Services to the extent that such failure or delay is caused by force majeure or by any default, delay, or failure on the part of the Employer, its employees, agents, or contractors, Authorised Users, or End Users.

3. Employer’s Obligations

3.1. The Employer shall, during the Term, be permitted to use the Platform to post job vacancies for End Users, subject to these terms and conditions.
3.2. The Employer shall:
(a) use commercially reasonable endeavors to ensure job listings are suitable for the Platform;
(b) provide Lilac Jobs with:
(i) all necessary cooperation in relation to these terms and conditions; and
(ii) all necessary access to such information as may be required by Lilac Jobs;
(c) without affecting your other obligations under these terms and conditions, comply with all applicable laws and regulations with respect to your activities under these terms and conditions; and
(d) carry out your responsibilities set out in these terms and conditions in a timely and efficient manner.
3.3. The Employer shall be entitled to issue its own terms and conditions or terms of business to End Users, as may be required, in relation to the job vacancies, and Lilac Jobs shall accept no liability whatsoever in respect of any such terms that the Employer may issue to the End User. Any contract or arrangement entered into between the Employer and the End User is entered into between them only, and Lilac Jobs is not a party thereto.
3.4. By accepting these terms and conditions, you agree to use the Platform lawfully and for the sole purpose of posting details of job vacancies and engaging with End Users who may potentially fill any vacancies. Further, you shall at all times use the Platform in a manner that does not infringe the rights of third parties or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Platform by any other employer or user. Specifically, you agree you shall not:
(a) use the Platform for the transmission of any spam or computer viruses;
(b) do anything that brings (or in our opinion is likely to bring) Lilac Jobs into disrepute;
(c) upload to, distribute, store, or display upon or through the Platform any material which:
(i) is unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing, or racially or ethnically offensive;
(ii) facilitates illegal activity;
(iii) depicts sexually explicit images or promotes unlawful violence;
(iv) is discriminatory based on race, gender, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, or disability; or
(v) is otherwise illegal or causes damage or injury to any person or property;
(d) embed, upload, or make any of the Platform available via any third-party platform, website, or service without our prior written consent;
(e) copy, reproduce, or otherwise publish any of our trademarks or logos without our prior written consent;
(f) frame the Platform on other websites without our prior written consent; or
(g) attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, republish, transmit, or distribute any part of the Platform or sub-license or transfer your rights to use the Platform.
3.5. You shall ensure that the Authorised Users use the Services and the Platform in accordance with these terms and conditions, and you shall be responsible for any Authorised User’s breach hereof.
3.6. In relation to the Authorised Users, the Employer undertakes that:
(a) each Authorised User shall keep a secure password for their use of the Platform, that such password shall be changed periodically, and that each Authorised User shall keep their password confidential; and
(b) it shall maintain a written, up to date list of current Authorised Users and provide such list to Lilac Jobs promptly upon request.

4. Charges, Subscriptions, and Payment

4.1. The Employer shall pay the fees to Lilac Jobs as further detailed in the Additional Terms, as notified to the Employer.
4.2. All amounts and fees stated or referred to in these terms and conditions (including any Additional Terms):
(a) shall be payable in pounds sterling;
(b) are exclusive of value-added tax, which shall be added at the appropriate rate; and
(c) shall, if not paid on their due date, be liable to interest at the rate of [4]% per annum over the base lending rate of the Bank of England from time to time, from the due date until payment in full is made.
4.3. Lilac Jobs shall be entitled (at any time following the expiry of the Initial Subscription Term) to increase the level of the Subscription Fees payable by you, upon giving at least 30 days’ prior written notice to the Employer (which notice may be given prior to the expiry of the Initial Subscription Term provided that such increase shall not take effect until on or after the expiry thereof).
4.4. Lilac Jobs shall accept no liability for any vacancy that is accepted by the End User but not fulfilled by the End User.

5. Termination

5.1. Following the expiry of the Initial Subscription Term, the provision of the Services under these terms and conditions may be terminated by either Lilac Jobs or the Employer on giving at least sixty (60) calendar days’ written notice to the other. Either party may serve notice to terminate during the Initial Subscription Term, provided that such notice shall not take effect until the end of the Initial Subscription Term. Where written notice is given by either party under this clause 5.1, all Subscription Fees or other sums due to Lilac Jobs (to the extent not already received by Lilac Jobs) up to the expiry of the notice period shall be paid forthwith by the Employer to Lilac Jobs.
5.2. Without affecting any other right or remedy available to it, either Lilac Jobs or the Employer may terminate the provision of Services pursuant to these terms and conditions with immediate effect by giving written notice to the other party if:
(a) the other party commits a material

breach of any of its obligations under these terms and conditions, and where such breach is capable of remedy, has not remedied such breach within thirty (30) calendar days of written notice specifying the breach;
(b) the other party is subject to bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings; becomes insolvent; makes any composition or arrangement with creditors or an assignment for their benefit (other than for the sole purpose of a scheme for a solvent amalgamation of that other party with one or more other companies or the solvent reconstruction of that other party); is subject to proceedings for the appointment of an administrator; goes into liquidation whether voluntary or compulsory (except for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction); has a receiver or administrative receiver of any assets appointed; or a petition, notice, resolution, or order for or in connection with the winding up of that other party is presented (other than for the sole purpose of a scheme for a solvent amalgamation of that other party with one or more other companies or the solvent reconstruction of that other party); or where a creditor or encumbrancer of the other party attaches or takes possession of, or a distress, execution, sequestration, or other such process is levied or enforced on or sued against, the whole or any part of the other party’s assets and such attachment or process is not discharged within 14 business days;
(c) any event occurs, or proceeding is taken, with respect to the other party in any jurisdiction to which it is subject that has an effect equivalent or similar to any of the events mentioned in clause 5.2(b); or
(d) the other party suspends or ceases, or threatens to suspend or cease, carrying on all or a substantial part of its business.
5.3. On termination of the Services provided pursuant to these terms and conditions for any reason:
(a) all licenses granted under these terms and conditions shall immediately terminate;
(b) any rights, remedies, obligations, or liabilities of the parties that have accrued up to the date of termination, including the right to claim damages in respect of any breach of these terms and conditions which existed at or before the date of termination, shall not be affected or prejudiced.

6. Data Protection

6.1. Lilac Jobs shall ensure that it complies in all material respects with all applicable Data Protection Laws.
6.2. The Employer undertakes to comply with all its obligations under the Data Protection Laws.
6.3. Lilac Jobs shall have no responsibility for the Employer’s compliance with Data Protection Laws, and Lilac Jobs shall have no liability for the breach by the Employer of any such laws.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1. You acknowledge that all rights in and to the Intellectual Property used in connection with the Platform, Services, and our business and the goodwill connected with that (“Lilac Jobs Intellectual Property”) are, and shall remain, the property of Lilac Jobs. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not affect your title to any trademarks, trade names, or other proprietary marks which you may display upon the Platform in connection with your business and/or the job vacancy posted. By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you hereby license Lilac Jobs to use your proprietary names and marks for the purposes of providing the Services.
7.2. You agree and accept that:
(a) you are permitted to use the Lilac Jobs Intellectual Property only for the purposes of receiving the Services pursuant to these terms and conditions and only as authorized by us in these terms and conditions or otherwise in writing;
(b) other than to that extent, you have and shall have no right to use or to allow others to use the Lilac Jobs Intellectual Property or any part of it;
(c) you shall not seek to register any Lilac Jobs Intellectual Property without our prior written consent;
(d) you shall not use any trademarks, trade names, or get-up which resemble our trademarks, trade names, or get-up and which would therefore be likely to confuse or mislead the public or any section of the public;
(e) you shall not remove or alter any trademarks, trade names, or logos used by us in connection with the Services; and
(f) you shall not do or omit to do, or authorize any third party to do or to omit to do, anything which could infringe, invalidate or be inconsistent with the Lilac Jobs Intellectual Property.
7.3. You shall immediately notify us of:
(a) any actual, threatened, or suspected infringement of any Lilac Jobs Intellectual Property of which you become aware; and
(b) any claim by any third party, of which you become aware, that the Platform or the provision of the Services infringes any rights of any other person.