Terms of Use

1. About us and these terms

Employe IO is a technical recruitment agency that introduces technology professionals to companies hiring for engineering, product and related roles. By using this website or contacting us through it, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

[For review] Employe IO’s registered legal entity name, company number and registered address are not published on this website and should be inserted here before publication.

2. What this website is

This website presents information about our services, our journal articles and current or recent role openings. It is informational: it does not create an employment relationship, a recruitment mandate or any binding service agreement on its own. Role listings are summaries and may be filled, paused or amended at any time. A listing marked “Open” or “Closed” reflects our understanding at the time of publication.

3. Terms for clients

3.1 Services and engagement

We provide sourcing, screening, shortlisting and introduction services. The specific scope, fees, invoicing terms, replacement or guarantee terms and duration of any engagement are set out in a separate written agreement or proposal between Employe IO and the client. Where those documents conflict with these terms in relation to the services, the signed agreement or proposal prevails.

3.2 Client responsibilities

• provide accurate, lawful and complete hiring requirements, including role scope, compensation range, location or work arrangement and any legal requirements;
• respond and cooperate within reasonable timeframes during the recruitment process, including interview scheduling and feedback;
• conduct your own verification, references, background and right-to-work checks before making a hiring decision;
• comply with applicable employment, equal opportunity, immigration and data protection laws in your hiring process.

3.3 Candidate information received from us

Candidate information we provide is confidential and shared only to allow you to evaluate that candidate for the role discussed. You agree to:

• use it solely for that evaluation and any resulting hiring process;
• not forward, publish, resell or share it with other organisations, group companies or third parties without our prior written consent and where required, the candidate’s consent;
• not add candidates to unrelated marketing lists or unrelated talent pools;
• keep it secure, handle it as a controller under applicable data protection law and delete or stop using it once it is no longer needed;
• notify us promptly if you hire or engage an introduced candidate.

3.4 No guarantee of hiring outcome

We work diligently, but we do not guarantee that any search will produce a hire, that a candidate will accept an offer, or that a placed candidate will remain in the role — except where a specific guarantee or replacement term is expressly stated in a signed agreement with the client.

4. Terms for candidates

4.1 Using the site and applying

You may browse role listings and contact us about opportunities. When you send us your CV or details — by the contact form, email or messaging — you confirm that:

• the information is truthful, accurate and your own;
• you are entitled to share it, including any third-party details such as referees and have obtained their permission where needed;
• you are not breaching a confidentiality, non-compete or other obligation to a current or former employer by sharing it;
• you do not include sensitive personal data unless we specifically request it.

4.2 Consent to representation

By submitting your details for a role, you authorise Employe IO to evaluate your profile and to share your information with the relevant client company for the purpose of considering you for that or comparable opportunities, as described in our Privacy Policy. You can ask us at any time not to submit your profile to a specific company, or to stop representing you.

4.3 No guarantee of employment

We cannot guarantee an interview, an offer or employment. Hiring decisions, employment terms and compensation are determined by the employer, not by Employe IO. We are not your employer unless a separate written agreement says otherwise. We never charge candidates for introductions or placements.

4.4 Misrepresentation

Providing false, misleading or plagiarised information — including inaccurate employment history, qualifications or work authorisation — may lead us to end our engagement with you and where appropriate, to inform the affected client.

5. Confidentiality both ways

We treat client hiring information (role briefs, compensation data, internal plans) and candidate information as confidential and use them only for the recruitment purposes for which they were shared. Clients must protect candidate information as set out in section 3.3. Candidates must not disclose confidential client information learned during a process, such as unpublished product or organisational details.

6. Acceptable use and prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

• use the site for any unlawful, fraudulent or deceptive purpose;
• submit false information, impersonate another person or misstate your affiliation;
• scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-extract content, listings or contact details from the site, or use automated tools to do so;
• attempt to bypass our security measures, including the anti-spam check on our contact form, or probe, disrupt or overload the site;
• upload malware or otherwise interfere with the site’s operation;
• use our contact channels to send unsolicited advertising, spam or bulk vendor outreach;
• copy, reproduce or republish our content except as permitted below.

7. Intellectual property

The Employe IO name, logo, site design, text, graphics, journal articles and role descriptions are owned by Employe IO or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. You may view, download and print pages for your own internal, non-commercial evaluation of our services or opportunities. Any other use — including reproduction, modification, distribution or commercial exploitation — requires our prior written permission. You retain ownership of the content you send us and you grant us permission to use it for the recruitment purposes described in these terms and our Privacy Policy.

8. Third-party links and services

The site links to and embeds third-party services, including our Calendly scheduling page, WhatsApp and Telegram contact links, our LinkedIn page and a Cloudflare security check. Those services are operated by their own providers under their own terms and privacy notices. We are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.

We are introducing Google Analytics 4, a website measurement service provided by Google, to understand how the site is used and to improve it. Where it is active, Google Analytics runs only after you allow non-essential cookies in our cookie banner and it operates under Google’s own terms and privacy notices. Google Fonts is also used to serve the typefaces on this site. These third-party website technologies may be used as described in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, subject to any applicable consent requirements.

9. Accuracy and availability

We aim to keep the site accurate and available, but content is provided for general information and may become out of date. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site or any listing at any time without notice and we do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation.

10. Disclaimers

To the extent permitted by law, the site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. Nothing on the site constitutes legal, employment, tax or immigration advice.

11. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Employe IO will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the site or from a recruitment process. Our total liability arising out of or relating to the site is limited to the amount you have paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the claim; liability relating to paid recruitment services is governed by the applicable signed client agreement. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Employe IO against reasonable losses, costs and claims arising from your breach of these terms, your unlawful or unauthorised use of the site, your misuse of candidate information, or information you submit that is false or that you were not entitled to share.

13. Termination

You may stop using the site at any time and ask us to end our engagement with you. We may suspend or terminate your access to the site, or our engagement with you as a client or candidate, if you breach these terms or if we reasonably consider it necessary to protect the site, our clients or candidates. Sections that by their nature should survive — including confidentiality, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability and indemnification — continue after termination. Termination of a paid client engagement is governed by the applicable signed agreement.

14. Governing law and disputes

[For review] Employe IO has not published a governing law or jurisdiction on this website and we have not invented one. The governing law and the courts or dispute-resolution forum for these terms should be confirmed by Employe IO and inserted here before publication. Until then, any signed client agreement governs disputes about paid services and disputes with candidates will be handled in good faith under the law that applies to the relevant engagement.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as our services or the site change. The “last updated” date above shows the current version and continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised terms.

16. Severability and entire agreement

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the provision is applied to the maximum extent permitted. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy and any signed agreement between us, form the entire agreement regarding your use of this website and supersede earlier understandings on that subject.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@employe.io. Working hours are 9 am to 6 pm UK time. Our team works fully remotely across Europe and Asia.