These terms and conditions govern your access to and use of the Website. By accessing and using the Website you agree that you have read and accept these terms and conditions and that they shall apply to your use. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, please leave the Website.

1. Contact details

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PPL publishes and operates this Website at the url http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk (the "Website") and the People Management magazine (the "Magazine") on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ("CIPD") and CIPD Enterprises Limited ("CIPDE").

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Through the Website you may gain access to the products and services of CIPD and CIPDE. You may also gain access to the subscription services of Alliance Media who administer Magazine subscriptions on behalf of PPL. In addition to these terms and conditions the provision of such products and services will be governed by such additional terms and conditions as made available to you on the relevant CIPD or PPL website or otherwise at the time of any purchase.

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2. Registration

2.1

In order to register with the Website you are required to submit your first and last names, email address, user name and password. You must also indicate whether you are a guest, CIPD member, a member through an organisational membership or a People Management subscriber. If you have any queries about your details on the CIPD database, please email database@cipd.co.uk.

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You are able to provide additional information including your postal addresses, another email address and sign up and or manage your newsletter subscriptions via the ‘My Profile’ area of the Website. You are not obliged to submit this additional information in order to register with or use the Website, but if you choose to do so, then, subject to paragraph 3 below, CIPD may use it in order to provide you with a more personalised service.

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We may suspend and/or terminate (either in whole or in part) your use of any user name, password or this Website immediately for any reason.


3. Use of the jobs service and display advertising service by Members and Non-Members 

PM Jobs is a service for recruiters and job applicants to facilitate the transfer of information for recruitment purposes. Please view People Management Jobs: User Information and/or People Management Terms of Business for Recruiters for more information.

4. Data protection and privacy

For your security and peace of mind, PPL, CIPD and CIPDE will not supply your details to any organisation for marketing purposes. Please view our Privacy Policy for further information.

5. Intellectual Property

5.1

All intellectual property rights in the design and layout of the Website and the material and information published on the pages of the Website, including, but not limited to, copyright and rights in registered and unregistered trade marks, are owned by or licensed to PPL.

5.2

You may only print or download the content on the Website for personal use and study, and not for commercial purposes. Save as may be incidental to you obtaining authorised access to the content on the Website, you must not reproduce, download, transmit or retransmit, manipulate or store on paper, electronic media (including, but not limited to any database or any part of the Internet), CD-Rom or other offline product on any other format in whole or in part the design and layout of the Website or the information or material published on the pages of it, nor hypertext or otherwise link to it for any other purpose, without the prior written consent of PPL, such permission to be given or withheld at PPL's absolute discretion. All requests for permission to use content on the Website for anything other than personal use should be emailed to editorial@peoplemanagement.co.uk

6. ‘Link to us’ policy

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PPL ‘Link to us’ logos may be downloaded and used on your website to provide a hypertext link to the PPL website or the CIPD website at www.cipd.co.uk (the "CIPD Website"). They are available from the Link to us page on this site.

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‘Link to us’ logos are provided at PPL’s absolute discretion and may be altered, or removed from your site, by us, at any time.

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‘Link to us’ logos must not be presented on your site in a way which suggests that PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE has an official association with your organisation or has endorsed any of your products.

6.4

PPL is not responsible for the content contained on any website using one of our ‘Link to us’ logo links.

7. Disclaimer

7.1

The material and information contained on the Website is for general information only and does not constitute any form of offer for sale (except for products available to purchase on our online sales website at www.cipd.co.uk/bookstore), advice or recommendation by PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE. You should not rely on the material or information on the Website as a basis for making any business, legal or other decisions. You should seek appropriate independent advice before making any such decisions.

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Neither PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE makes any warranty or representation and each exclude all warranties or representations or implied terms that the material and information, including any advertising material and/or job vacanices, on the Website is accurate, true or complete or that they are free of viruses or that they do not contain any material which is defamatory, obscene or illegal in any way.

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In no circumstances will PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE be liable to you or any other third parties for any loss or damage (whether direct or indirect, including loss of profits, loss of opportunity and any consequential loss) resulting from or in any way connected with your use of the Website or its content (including, without limitations, “People Management jobs” and the Service), whether caused by negligence, misrepresentation, breach of any statutory duty, or breach of contract or otherwise. PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE do not limit or exclude their liability for death or personal injury resulting from their negligence.

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You may access other websites via hypertext links from the Website. You use such links and other websites entirely at your own risk. Such websites are provided by independent third parties and PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE accept no responsibility for the availability, content or use of such websites or information contained on them.

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PPL shall be responsible for the Website and PPL (and other companies working on its behalf) shall only be required to use its reasonable endeavours to keep the Website operational. While PPL will take all reasonable steps to ensure a fast and reliable service, PPL will not be held responsible for any disruption of the Service however caused, loss of or corruption of any material in transit, or loss of or corruption of material when downloaded onto any computer system.

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This Website and the CIPD website are independent of one another. When using the CIPD Website, reference should be had to the terms and conditions governing access to that website.

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PPL endeavours to ensure that the information it provides through its Website is accurate and accepts no liability for any errors and omissions, or misuse of copyright or personal information in breach of the above rules.

8. Indemnity

9. General

9.1

PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE reserves the right to assign or transfer all or any of its rights and obligations under these terms and conditions to any of its group companies or to any other third party. In the event of assignment or transfer, notification will either be given to you by email or posted on the Website.

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Failure by PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE to exercise or enforce any right conferred upon it shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any such right nor operate so as to bar the exercise or enforcement of that or any other right on any later occasion.

9.3

PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE reserve the right to vary these terms and conditions from time to time. Such changes will either be notified to you by email or posted on the Website. Changes in this manner shall be deemed to have been accepted if you continue to use the Website after notification.

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These terms are governed by and will be interpreted in accordance with English law. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any claim or dispute which may arise out of or in connection with these terms and conditions.

Disclaimer:

PPL endeavours to ensure that the information it provides through its website is accurate and accepts no liability for any errors and omissions, or misuse of copyright or personal information in breach of the above rules.

People Management Website Terms and Conditions of use
May 2010