Terms of Use of the Website Welcometothejungle.com

Version dated 29 August 2024

The French version shall always prevail in case of any discrepancy or inconsistency between French version and its English translation.

Welcome to the Jungle makes companies more attractive by promoting their employer brand and providing a seamless recruitment experience for candidates and recruiters. Welcome to the Jungle also provides its users with a work-related media outlet featuring articles, interviews, and eBooks.

We invite you to read this document (hereinafter, the “Terms of Use”) carefully. If you have any questions about this document and, more generally, about the services published by Coruscant SAS and any entity affiliated with Coruscant (hereinafter, “We”, “Welcome to the Jungle” or “WTTJ”), please do not hesitate to contact us via the contact tab on our website.

1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION

The purpose of the Terms of Use is to define the rules applicable to access to and use of our services (hereinafter “Services”) via our website and its subdomains (hereinafter the “Website”).

These Terms of Use are a contract between persons who browse the Website without creating an account (hereinafter “Reader”), and persons who have created a Member Area and entered their personal information (hereinafter “Member”), jointly referred to as “Users” or “You” and Welcome to the Jungle, individually referred to as the “Party” and jointly referred to as the “Parties”.

Access to the Website is subject to Users accepting and complying with these Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use do not apply to services offered by third-party companies operating websites and tools belonging to our partners or other websites or tools accessible from our Website.

These Terms of Use do not apply to the use of our product by companies that have signed a contract with WTTJ (hereinafter referred to as our “Client(s)”). If you are a Client, we invite you to visit our dedicated pages to find out more about the services that apply to you. If you are interested in our product, please contact our teams to find out about our terms and conditions of sale.

We may change these Terms of Use from time to time. You are invited to consult this page regularly to ensure that you agree with any modifications. In the event of significant modifications, you will be informed through a notification when you log on to your Member Area. You will be asked to accept the new version of the Terms of Use to continue using the Services.

2. SERVICES OFFERED VIA THE WEBSITE

When you browse the Website, you can, without having to create a Member Area:

  • Search, explore, and view company pages and obtain information (videos, job openings, news, etc.) about them via their pages (hereinafter referred to as “Company Profile(s) ”);
  • Consult job openings;
  • Explore articles and content on employment and recruitment;
  • Download our resources, in particular, our eBooks and guides on employer branding and recruitment;
  • Register to attend our events or download the replay;
  • Request a demonstration of our product and be contacted by our sales teams.

When you create an account on our Website (hereinafter referred to as “Member Area”) you will be able to benefit from the complete Welcome to the Jungle experience and in particular:

  • Create and fill your candidate profile and benefit from personalized support in your job search;
  • To be contacted by recruiters when you give your consent for your profile information to be made visible, based on the data manually and automatically entered in your profile and your Website usage data;
  • Browse, compare and apply for jobs available on the Website;
  • Manage the progress of all your applications in your Member Area.

The Services are free for Users of the Website. Recruiters must pay to post job openings and access our product.

3. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR CREATING AND USING THE MEMBERS’ AREA

3.1 Creating your Member Area and a Secure Password

When the User creates a Member Area, he or she has the option of registering via his or her LinkedIn profile, Google account, or email address. When registering via LinkedIn profile and Google account, your personal information will be pre-filled by our partners. If you choose to register via your email address, you will need to fill in the form collecting the following information: first name, surname, email address, and password.

Your password must be strong and comply with our security requirements. It must remain strictly personal and confidential.
You are solely responsible for actions resulting from the use of your Member Area, regardless of whether you initiated them. This is why you guarantee:

  • not allow any third party to use your Member Area in your place or on your behalf;
  • take all appropriate measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of your password and username.

In the event of loss or theft of your login details, please notify Welcome to the Jungle immediately using the contact form available on our Website. You are entirely responsible for any direct or indirect consequences resulting from late notification or lack of notification in the event of loss or theft of your login and password.

3.2 Fill in your candidate profile and set up your Member Area

Once your Member Area has been created, you can complete your profile via the “Profil” tab and provide additional information.

In this tab, you can complete your profile manually by entering your personal and professional information directly. You can also enhance your profile by adding additional documents such as a CV, cover letter or any other relevant file.

In addition, we may use these documents to help complete your profile by automatically extracting the relevant information using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence. You will always be able to consult and modify this information at any time.

In addition, if you provide us with links to your social networks, websites, etc., we may enrich your profile by extracting information from these sources thanks to our partnerships with these platforms and websites or with other lawful data sources.

In the “Settings” tab, available via the “Profil” tab, you can change your password and delete your Member Area.

3.3 Follow companies, and experts and receive notifications and communications

As you browse our Website, you can follow companies or experts. This allows you to receive notifications directly to your Member Area and your email address when there is new activity on a company, a new article, or new contributions from experts.

You agree that we may send notifications or messages relating to your use of our Services, your applications, or any Welcome to the Jungle content, by the following means (i) in your Member Area, (ii) to the email address provided.

You can manage your consents, subscriptions, and suspend notifications at any time via your preferences center available in your Member Area.

3.4 Accessing and applying for job openings

To apply for a job available on our Website, you must complete an online application form with information and documents concerning your identity, your academic and professional background, and your motivation. This information will be sent directly to the recruiter concerned, who will keep you informed of the outcome of your application.

The application form is created and edited by the recruiter only. As WTTJ is not involved in the recruitment process, only the recruiter is authorized to contact you.

Please note that some job openings link directly to third-party websites where you can fill in your application form directly. Welcome to the Jungle is a mere intermediary and is not responsible for these third-party sites or the content of the application form.

At the time of your application, You expressly guarantee the truthfulness and reality of the information shared (profile, training, professional experience, etc.).

3.5 Being contacted by recruiters

Welcome to the Jungle also allows you, when using our Website, to be contacted directly by recruiters for job openings that match your search and profile.
You can activate and deactivate this feature at any time in your profile by changing your status from “Not available” to “Listening” or “Actively searching”.
By activating this function, you allow recruiters to see your profile when they use filters to refine their searches and detect relevant candidates.
The profiles presented to recruiters are those considered to be the most relevant based on the data in your member profile, whether entered automatically or manually and your use of the Website.

4. CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES

When using the Services, Users are solely responsible for the information they share.

When using the Services, Users undertake to:

  • Comply with the stipulations described in the Terms of Use, with the laws in force, and respect the rights of third parties;
  • To use the Website under its intended purpose and not to interfere with its proper operation;
  • Not to develop, support, or use any software, device, script, robot, or any other means or process (including but not limited to spiders, browser plug-ins and add-ons, or any other technology) to web scrap the Services or otherwise copy Company Profiles and other data from the Services;
  • Not to infringe Welcome to the Jungle’s intellectual property or other rights, including, but not limited to, (i) copying or distributing our photos and videos available on the Company Profiles (ii) copying or distributing our articles and other media content (iii) using the term “Welcome to the Jungle” or our logos;
  • Not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher, or generally attempt to obtain the source code of the Services or any related technology that is not open source;
  • Not to use the “framing” or “mirroring” technique or, in general, to simulate the appearance or operation of the Website or the Company Profiles;
  • Not to disrupt the operation of the Services or impose a disproportionate burden on them (spam, denial of service attacks, viruses, game algorithms).

When applying for jobs, Users undertake to:

  • Provide information, including an accurate, up-to-date, truthful, honest, and fair CV;
  • Not to use the Website to send unsolicited messages on a massive scale and not to publish advertising CVs or CVs promoting products or Services;
  • Apply in a professional manner and at a reasonable rate to the same job opening available on our Website, in particular not to apply several times a day to the same vacancy;
  • Not to import or disseminate via the Website, in particular via external links, any unlawful statements or content, and in particular any content that is counterfeit, defamatory, insulting, obscene, offensive, discriminatory, violent, xenophobic, or that incites racial hatred or any other content that is contrary to public decency or the rules of decorum;
  • Not to send defamatory or insulting messages to the Recruiter or to WTTJ;
  • Not to use the Services to disclose personal information (texts, photos, and videos) from third parties without their consent.

In case of breach of one or more of these obligations, Welcome to the Jungle may immediately suspend access to the Member Area and more generally to the Services.

6. WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE LIABILITY AND WARRANTIES

6.1 As part of the accessibility of the Website and Services

Users are responsible for ensuring that they have access to the appropriate technical resources for accessing and using our Services.

Welcome to the Jungle may limit or suspend access to one or more Services to carry out maintenance operations or to update the Website.

In addition, We do not guarantee:

  • that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure;
  • the completeness or accuracy of the content and information offered via the Website;
  • that the Services will meet Users’ needs.

6.2 When using the Services and the Website

We remind you that you use the Services and the Website entirely at your own risk. Therefore, WTTJ may not be held liable for damages of any kind, direct or indirect, resulting from your use of the Services.

Furthermore, WTTJ cannot be held responsible:

  • any consequences that may arise during or as a result of meetings or contacts between Members and recruiters following the use of the Services;
  • direct and/or indirect damage that may result from the use of content, data, or information of any kind, accessible from hypertext links available on the Website and referring to third-party sites. It is your responsibility to check that the information appearing on these partner websites is accurate, complete, and compliant with regulations;
  • elements beyond our control and any resulting damage to your technical environment, in particular, your computers, software, network equipment, and any other material used to access or use our Website and our Services;
  • for any loss or damage to data, loss of profit, loss of turnover, loss of opportunity, loss of time, or any consequential loss or damage, whether such loss or damage is due to negligence or otherwise, in connection with the performance or non-performance of the Terms of Use.

Furthermore, it should be specified that we do not intervene in the candidate selection process. Consequently, WTTJ may under no circumstances be assimilated to an employer, recruitment agency, or headhunter.

6.3 Content imported onto the Website

Responsibility for content:

Our customers are responsible for the content that appears on their Company Profile, as well as their job openings and recruitment processes.

We have no upstream control over:

  • The content you import or publish via the Services and your Member Area (its legality, suitability, accuracy, relevance or timeliness);
  • Content imported and published by recruiters (its legality, suitability, accuracy, relevance, or timeliness) on their Company Profile (interviews, articles, comments, news, etc.);
  • Job openings published by recruiters on the Website, their content, the recruitment process, interviews, and decisions taken at the end of the application process;
  • The ability or quality of the recruiters or candidates.

However, we have drawn up a Recruitment Charter to remind our customers of the legal framework and the values of ethics, professionalism, and good practice that we believe are essential to a successful and rewarding recruitment experience for all.

Report content:

Each User is invited to bring to our attention any content likely to be contentious or contrary to the Recruitment Charter.

All reports must be made via the contact form and must include a description of the disputed facts and their precise location on the Website, as well as the reasons why the content must be removed.

Wherever possible, the User will forward a copy of the correspondence sent to the author of the disputed content requesting its removal, or justification for the fact that the author could not be contacted.

Processing of alerts:

We are committed to responding promptly to any User notification and to treating each report fairly by adopting a transparent and consistent approach to the review process.

Once a report has been received, our teams carry out an initial examination. For complex cases, the report is forwarded to our monitoring committee, which makes the final decision.

We undertake to take all appropriate measures given the nature of the breach, which may include: a warning, removal of the offending content, temporary or permanent suspension of the Company Profile concerned, etc.

We will keep you informed of any action taken in response to your alert.

7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INTEGRITY

7.1 Welcome to the Jungle intellectual property

The content of the Website, in particular its structure, design, interfaces, databases, texts, digital content, trademarks, images, videos, music, logos, photos, all written content, and all graphic elements of which it is composed, as well as HTML referencing tags (meta-tags), excluding content belonging to third parties, are the exclusive property of Welcome to the Jungle. This content is protected by the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code and by any national or international text in force applicable to intellectual property law.

You are authorized to display on your screen the pages of the Website solely for personal consultation temporarily and under the purpose of the Services, as defined in these Terms of Use.
Any reproduction, distribution, or use of all or part of the content of the Website in any form whatsoever, without the express prior permission of Welcome to the Jungle, is prohibited and constitutes an infringement, punishable by articles L. 335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

You are also prohibited:

  • To extract by temporary or permanent transfer, or to use by making available to the public, all or a substantial part in quantitative or qualitative terms of our Website and other databases visible on our Website, for commercial or other purposes;
  • To exploit, market, or distribute any component of the Website and its Services, in particular the information visible on the Website and any other database.

7.2 Intellectual Property of Website Users

Users include and distribute content via the Website (application files, including CVs, covering letters, texts, images, etc.) (hereinafter referred to as “User Content”). As such, the User is and remains the owner of the rights to said content.

However, the User grants Welcome to the Jungle, who accepts, a non-exclusive and free license to use the User Content. This license covers the right to use the User Content and to grant sub-licenses to perform the Services. This user license will remain in force for the duration of the use of the Services and the User’s registration on the Website. To this end, the User declares that he/she is duly authorized to grant licenses to use the content that he/she integrates or disseminates.

8. PERSONAL DATA

Welcome to the Jungle is concerned about preserving the confidentiality of your personal information and we attach great importance to protecting the privacy of Users of our Services. In this respect, we undertake to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (known as the “GDPR”).

To access the details of Welcome to the Jungle’s commitments about the protection of Personal Data, please consult our Privacy Policy which forms an integral part of these Terms of Use.

9. DURATION AND TERMINATION

The Terms of Use apply to all Users until the Member Area is effectively deleted and use of the Services ceases.

Welcome to the Jungle may immediately suspend access to the Website and the Services in the event of non-compliance with the Terms of Use by the User. In this case, WTTJ will notify this suspension to the User by email and will give notice to cease this violation. At the end of a period of ten (10) days from the date of this notification which has remained without effect, WTTJ may block access to the Services by the User at fault, without formality and without prejudice to any damages and interest to which it may be entitled in compensation for the loss suffered.

10. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

If one or more stipulations in the Terms of Use are deemed illegal, unenforceable, or inapplicable by a court decision, the other stipulations of the Terms of Use will remain in force, provided that the general structure of the contract is not disrupted.

The fact that a Party does not require strict compliance with any obligation in these Terms of Use, on any occasion whatsoever, will not be considered a waiver of any of the aforementioned rights and will not deprive that Party of the right to require strict compliance with that obligation or with any other obligation in the Terms of Use at any time.

In the event of termination or expiry of these Terms of Use, the following articles shall remain in force: Intellectual Property; Warranties; Liability, Miscellaneous Provisions; Applicable Law, and Jurisdiction.

11. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms of Use are governed by French law.

In the event of a dispute, the parties agree, in the first instance, to attempt to resolve it amicably. If this fails, all disputes that may arise between the parties relating to the signature, interpretation, performance, and termination of these Terms of Use shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts, to which the parties expressly confer jurisdiction, even in the event of multiple defendants, summary proceedings, third-party proceedings or by petition.

12. ENTIRE CONTRACT

The Terms of Use, the Legal Notice, the Privacy Policy, and the Cookie Policy constitute the entire agreement between the Parties.