Terms And Condition

International Database Of African Professionals (IDOAP) Terms of Use

These Terms and conditions govern your access to and use of our websites, emails and mobile applications. These Terms also include our policy. By accessing and using IDOAP, you agree to comply with these Terms. If you are using IDOAP on behalf of a company or other legal entity, “you” means you and such company or legal entity and you agree to be bound by these Terms even if we have a separate agreement with you. You may not use IDOAP if you do not agree to the version of the Terms posted on IDOAP at the time you access IDOAP. The terms "we" and "us" refer to: IDOAP.

Please note: These Terms require the use of arbitration on an individual basis to resolve disputes, rather than jury trials or class actions, and also limit the remedies available to you in the event of a dispute.

Eligibility to Use IDOAP
1. To access or use IDOAP, you must be at least 16 years of age or, if older, the age of majority in your jurisdiction, otherwise you may not use IDOAP. An employer and its authorized agent(s) are permitted to use the employer's account and any data about that employer provided via that account for the employer's internal business purposes.
2. Except as set forth above, or as otherwise approved by us, IDOAP is for your personal, non-commercial use unless you enter into a separate agreement with us for your commercial use. You may not use IDOAP if we have terminated your account or banned you.
Your IDOAP Account
1. IDOAP Account. In order for you to create a IDOAP account, we require that you provide a valid email address. The email you use must be one where we can reach you. In the event we cannot correspond with you via this email address, your submitted content may be rejected and your account may be disabled.
2. Other registration requirements (such as, a click on a link in a IDOAP job alert email by unregistered users who create job alerts, or a requirement for individuals to contribute no more than one company review, interview review, and/or salary details of a current or former job per year) may also apply.
3. Once you have set up a password, you will be given access to your profile and other private areas of your account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
4. Passwords are subject to cancellation or suspension by IDOAP at any time. When you set up an individual user account on IDOAP, we create a member profile for you that will include personal information you provide. We will update your Profile with information we extract from CV you upload on IDOAP.
5. You may permit us to share information in your Profile with prospective employers, recruiters, and others. Subject to visibility settings that you control, subscribers to services we may introduce will be able to view information in your Profile.
6. Because your anonymity on IDOAP is important, your Profile does not include or link to information about the reviews or salary information you submit to IDOAP.
7. However, we may ask you to provide, and we may subsequently collect if you agree to provide, certain categories of sensitive personal information (e.g., race/ethnicity, sexual orientation). You may also have the opportunity to associate this sensitive personal information (and some nonsensitive personal information) with your reviews.
8. The intended use for this data will be disclosed in detail at the time of collection; please be aware that you do not have to share your personal information beyond the level you feel comfortable. You can read more about our diversity and inclusion privacy efforts in our Policy.
Using IDOAP
1. Third-Party Content on IDOAP. Content from other users, advertisers, and other third parties is made available to you through IDOAP. "Content" means any work of authorship or information, including salaries, company reviews, interview reviews, company photos, logos, employer responses, job ads, employer profile information, advertisements, comments, opinions, postings, resumes, messages, text, files, images, photos, works of authorship, e-mail, data or other materials you find on IDOAP.
2. Because we do not control such Content, you understand and agree that: (1) we are not responsible for, and do not endorse, any such Content, including advertising and information about third-party products and services, job ads, or the employer, interview and salary-related information provided by other users; (2) we make no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, suitability, reliability or quality of the information in such Content; and (3) we assume no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful Content made available by users, advertisers, and third parties.
3. We allow users to post content about employers when they have been employed by the employer as a full-time, part-time, contractor, freelancer, independent employee, or provide work that is an integral part of the employer's value chain. We also allow users to review the staffing firms that place them in these roles. We consider all workers in these roles as 'employees' with regard to Content left on Glassdoor. While we provide the option for IDOAP reviewers to specify the category of their employment when they leave a review (e.g. contractor, freelancer, etc.), we do not consider this a requirement. It does not violate our Community Guidelines or these Terms for a worker in any one of these roles to leave a review as an "employee."
4. House Rules. You represent and warrant that you will use IDOAP solely for lawful purposes in a manner consistent with these Terms and any and all applicable laws, regulations, or other legally enforceable obligations (including contractual obligations) you may have towards us and any third parties. You are solely responsible for any and all Content that is posted through your account on IDOAP ("Your Content"). You agree that by submitting or authorizing Your Content for use on IDOAP, you have reviewed and understood our policy.
5. You understand that you may expose yourself to liability if your Content or other use of IDOAP violates applicable law or any third-party right.
6. You agree that you will not:
  1. Impersonate another person, or his or her email address, or misrepresent your current or former affiliation with an employer;
  2. Create user accounts under false or fraudulent pretences; create or use an account for anyone other than yourself; or create multiple active user accounts to post multiple reviews for the same company;
  3. Post Content that you do not own or have the right to post in accordance with the license set forth in these Terms;
  4. Violate these Terms, the terms of your agreements with us, explicit restrictions set forth in our Community Guidelines, or any applicable law, rule or regulation;
  5. Post Content that is defamatory, libellous, or fraudulent; that you know to be false or misleading; or that does not reflect your honest opinion and experience;
  6. Act in a manner that is harassing, threatening, abusive, racist or bigoted, is otherwise objectionable as determined by IDOAP;
  7. Promote, endorse or further illegal activities;
  8. Disclose information in violation of any legally enforceable confidentiality, non-disclosure or other contractual restrictions or rights of any third party, including any current or former employers or potential employers;
  9. Violate the privacy, publicity, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of any third-party;
  10. Post anything pornographic or sexually explicit in nature, or engage in the exploitation of persons in a sexual or violent manner;
  11. Solicit personally identifying information from minors;
  12. Except as expressly approved by us, and subject to applicable laws, use IDOAP for commercial activities and/or promotions such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, pyramid schemes, advertising, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation;
  13. Imply IDOAP endorsement or partnership of any kind without our express written permission;
  14. Send messages in violation of any anti-spam law;
  15. Introduce software or automated agents to IDOAP, or access IDOAP so as to produce multiple accounts, generate automated messages, or to scrape, strip or mine data from IDOAP without our express written permission;
  16. "Frame" or "mirror" or otherwise incorporate part of IDOAP into any website, or "deep-link" to any portion of IDOAP without our express written permission;
  17. Copy, modify or create derivative works of IDOAP or any Content (excluding Your Content) without our express written permission);
  18. Copy or use the information, Content (excluding Your Content), or data on IDOAP in connection with a competitive service, as determined by IDOAP;
  19. Sell, resell, rent, lease, loan, trade or otherwise monetize access to IDOAP or any Content (excluding Your Content) without our express written permission;
  20. Interfere with, disrupt, modify, reverse engineer, or decompile any data or functionality of IDOAP;
  21. Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on IDOAP or the networks or services connected to IDOAP;
  22. Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or similar software to IDOAP; or attempt to circumvent any security feature of IDOAP;
7. Links to Third-Party Websites. IDOAP may contain links to third-party websites placed by us as a service to those interested in this information, or posted by other users. Your use of all such links to third-party websites is at your own risk. We do not monitor or have any control over, and make no claim or representation regarding third-party websites. To the extent such links are provided by us, they are provided only as a convenience, and a link to a third-party website does not imply our endorsement, adoption or sponsorship of, or affiliation with, such third-party website. When you leave IDOAP, our terms and policies do not govern your use of third-party websites.
8. Applying on IDOAP. Some of our job postings allow you to complete and submit your application on IDOAP. We provide this service by working directly with an employer or by searching the Internet for the best contact information we can find for an employer. When you click the "Apply" button to submit an application on IDOAP, we send your application to the most appropriate contact information we have on file for that employer.
9. While we endeavour to make this service the best it can be, employer websites are not controlled by us, and we cannot guarantee that your application will be properly received and logged by the third-party employer website upon transmission. If you have any reason to think your application was not received by an employer, we suggest you contact them directly to confirm.
10. IDOAP does not guarantee the identity of an employer or any individuals working for any employers, and cautions job seekers when applying to jobs. IDOAP does not guarantee the validity of a job offer and cautions job seekers to verify the validity of a job offer before taking an adverse action regarding their current employment situations. You are solely responsible for verifying the accuracy of any employer or job offer.
11. IDOAP Messaging Service. IDOAP provides the IDOAP Messaging Service a two-way message proxy and relay system. By utilizing the IDOAP Messaging Service, you acknowledge that you are asking IDOAP to send these messages on your behalf. This includes your resumes, cover letters, applications, messages, questionnaire answers, responses, offer letters and other materials.
12. When you ask IDOAP to transmit an application or a message, including, but not limited to, a signed offer letter, to an employer via Easy Apply or the IDOAP Messaging Service or store such application, you understand that this is without warranty, and that IDOAP reserves the right to reformat such application or message.
13. IDOAP reserves the right to verify and confirm the identity of any party associated with an email relay. We also reserve the right to drop messages in accordance with these Terms, including without limitation dropping any message with an .ade, .adp, .bat, .chm, .cmd, .com, .cpl, .exe, .hta, .ins, .isp, .jar, .jse, .lib, .lnk, .mde, .msc, .msp, .mst, .pif, .scr, .sct, .shb, .sys, .vb, .vbe, .vbs, .vxd, .wsc, .wsf, .wsh, or .zip attachment for any or no reason.
14. Salary Estimates. In certain markets we may offer salary estimate features that help you to better know your worth by means of personalized market value or salary estimates currently described on our site. Salary estimates for job roles and salary estimates for specific job openings. Unless otherwise indicated, we estimate base salary only and do not include the value of bonus, equity, benefits, or other forms of compensation. Though we may offer employers the ability to supplement or replace our salary estimates with their own data, users should understand that, unless indicated otherwise, results do not represent verified salaries, guarantees of actual salaries, or endorsements from employers. Their purpose is to provide data to promote transparency, help people better know their worth and thereby make informed decisions. We do not guarantee the accuracy of results and you are responsible for how you use them. We encourage you to supplement IDOAP's salary estimates with other research. If you are an Employer with a Free Employer Account, you have the ability to update your pay ranges by logging into the Employer Center and clicking on the "Jobs & Recruiting" tab and then "All Jobs". If you have other questions or want to provide other feedback on salary estimates, please contact us.
15. Free Templates. From time to time we may provide you with templates for your use, such as, templates to help employers solicit reviews from your employees, or templates to help employers with job descriptions for job postings, or templates to help job seekers craft their resumes.
16. You understand and agree that the templates we offer through IDOAP are provided as suggestions and their contents do not constitute legal or employment advice. With respect to job description templates, you understand and agree that we cannot guarantee that a description properly applies to the specific circumstances of your hiring needs. You accept that your use of any template provided by IDOAP is at your own risk.
Special Provisions Applicable to Employers
1. Posting Jobs on IDOAP. You may not post any job ad that:
  1. Does not comply with the applicable laws or regulations of the state and country where the job is to be performed, including laws relating to labour and employment, equal employment opportunity and employment eligibility requirements, data privacy, data access and use and intellectual property;
  2. Contains false information or solicits employees by intentional misrepresentation, such as, misrepresentation of the terms of employment, the hiring entity, or the identity of the poster;
  3. Requires an application fee or up-front or periodic payments; requires recruitments of others; resembles a multi-level marketing scheme, franchise, pyramid scheme, "club membership", distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement; or only pays commissions (except where the listing makes clear that the available job pays commission only and clearly describes the product or service that the job seeker would be selling); or resembles a multi-level marketing scheme (unless you comply with the IDOAP Guideline for Multi-Level Market;
  4. Involves any screening requirement where such screening requirement is not an actual and legal requirement of the advertised position;
  5. Contains any logo or brands, or link to website, other than your own or those of any entity for which you are authorized to submit job ads;
  6. Contains multiple job openings in a single job ad (unless you've purchased a service that permits this);
  7. Discriminates against applicants on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other ground(s) prohibited by applicable law, in each case as determined in IDOAP's reasonable discretion.
2. You agree that IDOAP may, at its sole discretion, remove or prevent the posting of any job ad for any or no reason.
3. Reviews on IDOAP. You may not offer incentives in exchange for company or interview reviews. You may not trade reviews with other employers. We will remove reviews where we have evidence that users were compensated to leave reviews.
4. You may not coerce employees to leave reviews. Coercion includes asking employees to provide proof to an employer that they wrote a review whether or not that proof includes the content of the review itself.
5. If you are a multi-level marketing company, you agree that you have reviewed and will abide by the IDOAP.
6. Communications with Job Seekers. We may inform a user when you have taken an action with respect to information we have shared with you on behalf of that user, such as when you open the user's application, view their resume, view their profile on IDOAP, and/or make a decision about their application. When you view, store or receive materials through your use of IDOAP, we may use such materials for data analysis, quality control, or to refine our platform and services.
7. We may also share with our users our observations based on such data analysis. For example, we may tell our users which employers are more likely to open applications submitted to IDOAP, which employers are active on IDOAP, and how long certain aspects of the candidate process take on average for a given employer. We may, on your behalf, send out reminder emails to Job Seekers you wish to interview.
8. IDOAP may also send emails to Job Seekers on your behalf indicating that your job posting is potentially a match for the Job Seeker’s CV. You understand and agree that IDOAP may take such actions.