Terms & Conditions

1. Terms
   1. These terms and conditions (the "Terms") set out below will govern your use of this website which can be found at www.teachingprofessionals.com (the "Website")
   2. The Website is owned and operated by Teaching Professionals Limited ("TPL"), ("TPL", "us", "we" or "our").
   3. "You" means the person firm company or organisation browsing and/or using the Website, and “your” shall be construed accordingly.
   4. "TPL Group" means all companies connected with us. A company is connected with us if it is: (i) a subsidiary or holding company or us; (ii) controlled by the same person(s) who control us or our holding company; (iii) a subsidiary or holding company of any company in (i) or (ii) above; (iv) in the same group as any company under (i), (ii) and (iii) above. “subsidiary” and “holding company” shall be as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006. “control” shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 416 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.
   5. Please read these Terms carefully. By continuing to access and use the Website you are deemed to have understood, agree and are bound to the Terms.
2. General
   1. TPL is committed to safeguarding the information that you provide on this Website
   2. If you have any issues relating to privacy, terms or any legal aspect of www.teachingprofessionals.com please email dpo@teachingprofessionals.com
   3. You will not post or transmit to the website any material that contains a virus or disabling services that interfere with the operation of the site or infringe on any intellectual property right of any third party or that could affect TPL’s reputation or that defames, abuses, harasses or threatens others or encourages any illegal activity.
   4. You are responsible for ensuring that all information which you supply is true, complete, accurate, up-to-date and not misleading or likely to mislead or deceive and that it is not discriminatory, obscene, offensive, defamatory or otherwise illegal, unlawful or in breach of any applicable legislation, regulations, guidelines or codes of practice or the copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights of any person in any jurisdiction.
   5. You agree that you will exercise caution and take care not to breach any provision of your employment contract and any other contractual obligations you have entered into in respect of your employment when using the Website.
   6. TPL will in its sole discretion determine your compliance with the above and shall have the right to prevent you from using the Website without any prior notice.
   7. We may terminate you registration and/or deny you access to the Website or any part of it (including and services, goods or information available on or through the website) at and time in our absolute discretion and without any explanation or notification.
   8. TPL does not guarantee any employment or future engagement which will be reliant on acceptance and completion of any registration and setup requirements of your recruitment agency or end client.
   9. TPL’s usage of your personal data is set out in more detail under our Privacy Statement and Notices issued to you from time to time. By accessing or using our site you are accepting the terms and the Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to our usage of your personal information, please do not access or make use of this site.
   10. A user name and password ("user identification") may be required for registration, login and use of the site. You shall have sole responsibility for the security and proper use of your user identification which must not be disclosed to anyone and shall be kept confidential at all times. You agree to notify TPL immediately if you have reason to believe that your "user identification" has become known to someone else or is being used in an unauthorised way.
   11. TPL accepts no liability for any unauthorised or improper use of your user identification.
   12. You understand and acknowledge that the vacancies advertised on the website will be subject to local recruitment and employment legislation in the country where the job is based.
3. Interruptions and Omissions in Service
   1. Whilst we try to ensure that the standard of the Website remains high and to maintain the continuity of it, the internet is not an inherently stable medium and errors, omissions, interruptions of service and delays may occur at any time.
   2. We do not accept any liability arising from any such errors, omissions, interruptions or delays or any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate the Website (or any particular part of it) or to provide the service offered on the Website. We may vary the specification of this site from time to time without notice.
4. Disclaimer
   1. This Website contains information, text, data, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, names, logos, trademarks, service marks and information about TPL, its available services and general information on certain areas of employment and recruitment (the "Information").
   2. Except where it is otherwise expressly stated the information is not intended to, nor does it, constitute legal, accounting, business, financial, tax or other professional advice or services. The information is provided on an information basis only and should not be relied upon. If you need advice or services on a specific matter, please contact us directly using the contact details found on the website.
   3. The website and information is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis and TPL does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of the website or any of the information.
   4. TPL has tried to ensure that all the information provided on the website is correct at the time of publication. No responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of TPL for any errors, omissions, or inaccurate Information on the website. Further, TPL does not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted or error free or that any defects will be corrected.
   5. Although TPL attempts to ensure that the information contained in this website is accurate and up-to-date, we accept no liability for the results of any action taken on the basis of the information it contains and all implied warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy are excluded from these terms to the extent that they may be excluded as a matter of law.
   6. TPL accept no liability for any loss (whether direct or indirect, for loss of business, revenue or profits, wasted expenditure, corruption or destruction of data or for any other indirect or consequential loss whatsoever) arising for your use of the Website and we exclude any such liability, whether in contract, tort (including for negligence) or otherwise. We further exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to the Website and your use of it to the maximum extent permitted by law.
5. Linking
   1. On this site you will be offered automatic links to other sites which we hope will be of interest to you and may be required to complete your full registration with us. We do not accept any responsibility for or liability in respect of the content of those sites, the owners of which do not necessarily have any connection, commercial or otherwise, with us. Using automatic links to gain access to such sites is entirely at your own risk.
   2. You may not frame, link or deep-link this website to any other website without our prior written consent. Should you wish to frame or to set up a link / deep-link to our website please contact us.
6. Computer Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses
   1. Whilst we use reasonable endeavours to protect this website from computer viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses (the "Destructive Features"), we do not warrant that the website is free from such destructive features and accept no liability for any damage that may result from the transmission of any destructive feature via this website or via any files which are available for you to download from the website.
7. Copyright, Downloads and Reproduction
   1. Except as is otherwise indicated, TPL is the owner of the copyright in all the information featured on this website and of all related intellectual property rights, including but not limited to all database rights, registered trademarks, service marks and logos.
   2. You are permitted to download, print, store temporarily, retrieve and display information from the website on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to the network) for your personal use or for internal use within your organisation.
   3. You are not permitted (except where you have been given express permission to do so) to adapt or modify the information on this website or any part of it and the information or any part of it may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any other way to any third parties for commercial gain.
   4. Certain files of information are available for download from the Website. These files or Information are subject to these terms.
8. Your Use of this Website
   1. You may only use the Website for lawful purposes when seeking employment or help with your career, for access to TMS (timesheet management system) and payroll processes, or when recruiting staff. You must not under any circumstances seek to undermine the security of the Website or any information submitted to or available through it. In particular, but without limitation, you must not seek to access, alter or delete any information to which you do not have authorised access, seek to overload the system via spamming or flooding, take any action or use any device, routine or software to crash, delay, damage or otherwise interfere with the operation of the Website or attempt to decipher, disassemble or modify any of the software, coding or information comprised in the Website.
   2. You are solely responsible for any information submitted by you to the Website. You are responsible for ensuring that all information supplied by you is true, accurate, up-to-date and not misleading or likely to mislead or deceive and that it is not discriminatory, obscene, offensive, defamatory or otherwise illegal, unlawful or in breach of any applicable legislation, regulations, guidelines or codes of practice or the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any person in any jurisdiction.
   3. You are also responsible for ensuring that all information, data and files are free of viruses or other routines or engines that may damage or interfere with any system or data prior to being submitted to the Website.
   4. We reserve the right to remove any information supplied by you from the Website at our sole discretion, at any time and for any reason without being required to give any explanation.
9. Information Submitted by You
   1. We will and/or the TPL Group will use information supplied by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) to aid the recruitment and employment process and associated administrative functions. This involves us and/or the TPL Group, amongst other things, processing and storing information (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) and passing or making available online such information to prospective employers (or third parties assisting them in their recruitment process), and clients; information about vacancies and placements will be passed to candidates and may be posted directly onto the Website.
   2. We use third parties to help us process your information as part of the recruitment and payroll process. We may collect and aggregate data from the information supplied by you to help us to understand our users as a group so that we can provide you with a better service. We may also share aggregate information with selected third parties, without disclosing individual names or identifying information.
   3. We will process any data which you provide in completing the registration or application forms and any further forms, assessments or personal details which you complete or provide to us when using the Website in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
   4. Please note that some clients of TPL may be based outside the EU (such as in the Channel Islands). As such, certain personal information may need to be transferred outside of the EEA and may be accessed by TPL and third parties outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). This could also happen for instance if you apply for a vacancy with an agency or end client where the role or end client are based outside the EEA.
   5. Further detailed information on our use of Personal Information is available in our Privacy Statement.
   6. TPL will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our Website.
   7. TPL have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our Website if, in our absolute discretion.
10. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
    1. TPL is not authorised by the Financial Services Authority to provide financial services and products under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
11. Complaints
    1. TPL has an internal procedure for dealing with complaints.
12. Modern Slavery Act statement
    1. We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. Please see our Modern Slavery Statement for further information
13. Changes
    1. TPL reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any part of the Website, the information or these Terms. Should these Terms be amended, TPL will publish details of the amendments on the Website. You will be deemed to accept the terms and conditions (as amended) when you next use the Website following any amendment.
14. Severability
    1. If these terms or any part of them should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable under the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent that they are so illegal, invalid or unenforceable, they shall in that state or country be treated as severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable in that state or country
15. Events Beyond Our Control
    1. TPL will not be responsible for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control
16. Terms of Business
    1. Employment: Each assignment offered through TPL will be subject to our standard terms as applicable in the circumstances and which will be issued to you separately.
    2. All agencies or end clients for whom we provide services will be provided with a copy of the Terms of Business applicable to them on first dealing and/or on registration
    3. For the avoidance of doubt, separate Terms and Conditions govern the relationship between TPL and Agencies, TPL and Workers and the use of our timesheet system, (“TMS”, Terms & Conditions).
17. Safeguarding, Compliance Checks
    1. TPL is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, workers and clients to share this commitment. Some roles that TPL engage workers on may involve work with under 18’s or vulnerable adults. Any appointment to such roles will be made subject to strict vetting and screening compliance checks and receipt of a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
18. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
    1. The use of the Website and any agreements entered into through the Website are to be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. The courts of England are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website or any agreement made through the Website.
    2. Some of the goods or services offered through the Website may not be lawful or may otherwise not be permitted in certain countries outside the United Kingdom. If you attempt to order, receive, purchase or otherwise benefit from any such goods or services, we do not accept any liability for any losses suffered by you in using the Website which you would not have suffered had you been accessing the Website as a United Kingdom resident (including as a result of us being prevented from dealing with any application or enquiry by any law, regulation or other ruling applicable in any country)
19. Registered Office
    1. Bristol North Baths, Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8BN. Company Number 07119425 registered in England and Wales. Our VAT number is 991029606.
20. Concerns
    1. If you have any concerns about material which appears on our Website, please email us at info@teachingprofessionals.co.uk

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