Last Updated March 2021
These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (you), and Progression CV (we, us), concerning your access to and use of the Progression CV application and website, as well as any related offerings (the Platform).
The Platform provides the following services: An application facilitating CV creation, editing and sharing (Services). You agree that by accessing the Platform and/or Services, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms and Conditions.
If you do not agree with all of these Terms and Conditions, then you are prohibited from using the Platform and Services and you must discontinue use immediately. We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms and Conditions for future reference.
The supplemental policies set out in Section 1.7 below, as well as any supplemental terms and condition or documents that may be posted on the Platform from time to time, are expressly incorporated by reference.
We may make changes to these Terms and Conditions at any time. The updated version of these Terms and Conditions will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms and Conditions to stay informed of updates. Your continued use of the Platform represents that you have accepted such changes.
We may update or change the Platform from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and/or our business priorities.
Our site is directed to people residing in United Kingdom. The information provided on the Platform is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country.
The Platform is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. If you are under the age of 18, you are not permitted to register for the Platform or use the Services without parental permission.
Additional policies which also apply to your use of the Platform include:
Our Privacy Notice, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using the Platform, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Certain parts of this Platform can be used only on payment of a fee.
You may not access or use the Platform for any purpose other than that for which we make the site and our services available. The Platform may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavours except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.
As a user of this Platform, you agree not to:
You represent and warrant that: (a) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete and relate to you and not a third party; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such information as necessary; (c) you will keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your password and account; (d) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions; and (e) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the Platform.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user information (such as an identification code or user name) and/or password you must promptly notify us at contact@progressioncv.com.
If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate your account. We may remove or change a username you select if we determine that such username is inappropriate.
Use of your information:
We may use the personal information you provide, including email addresses and your academic institution, to:
(1) respond to your questions and requests;
(2) provide customer service to you;
(3) personalise your experience by providing content on the Platform;
(4) improve the Platform; and
(5) provide you with a safe, efficient, and customized experience.
We use aggregate information about our users and non-personal information, including statistics on user’s academic institutions and career preferences, to analyse the Platform and user behaviour to prepare aggregated reports.
We also use information from the Platform to prevent and detect illegal activities, breaches and fraud, as well as enforcing our terms.
We may use your information to improve and personalise the Platform. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent.
We use your information to contact you, to comply with statutory obligations, to maintain the Platform, to maintain your account, or to provide you with other relevant products or services, or to contact you for other purposes authorized by law. Where relevant, and with your permission, your information may be provided to third parties including, but not limited to, editors, employers or recruiters who might contact you about career opportunities, employers seeking candidates and/or other career service providers.
We will retain personal information for as long as is necessary to comply with our legal obligations and/or fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was collected, and your consent remains valid after termination of our relationship with you. You consent to our retention of your tracking data for as long as permissible under applicable law.
Your information may be shared with:
Where your information is disclosed to our affiliates, it will remain subject to our Privacy Policy. Your information will be disclosed only where necessary to guide business decisions, detect and prevent illegal acts, breaches or fraud, or to improve and maintain the Platform.
We may also share your personal information with third parties, only if you explicitly ask us to do so, or if in your use of the platform you consent for this to be done.
Your information may be shared with third parties, where this is required for our business operations (such as, but not limited to, fraud investigations, bill collection, payment processing, and site analytics and operations), and any information shared will remain subject to our Privacy Policy.
In the event that Progression CV should merge with or be acquired by another business entity, we will make reasonable efforts to request that the new combined entity follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information would be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice and depending on the circumstances, and you would then be able to decide whether you will continue to use this Platform.
If you access this Platform through our app, we may also share your information with Carriers, operating systems and platforms, as well as Analytics Providers such as Google Analytics, to evaluate usage of our Platform, and to help us improve our services, performance and user experiences.
Your information will be shared with law enforcement, governmental agencies, or authorized third parties, wherever required to comply with our legal duties, including in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other Progression CV user to legal liability. In such events, we will only disclose information relevant and necessary to the investigation or inquiry. If any information could lead to possible illegal, fraudulent activity or is a potential threat to safety or in violation of our user Agreement or Privacy Policy, it might be disclosed.
If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can indicate your communications preferences within the direct communication from us or through your account/profile settings. You may not opt-out of administrative emails (for example, emails about your transactions or policy changes). You may also click the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email or newsletter you receive for your registered account.
Your choices:
Progression CV has a number of measures intended to safeguard your personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or alteration.
Registered members can review and change personal information at any time by accessing their account on the Platform. You should promptly update your personal information if it changes or becomes inaccurate. We may retain some information from closed accounts so that we can comply with law, prevent fraud, assist with investigations, resolve disputes, analyse or troubleshoot programs, enforce our User Agreement, or take other actions permitted by law. Likewise, if your account or membership is terminated or suspended, we may maintain some information to prevent re-registration.
We endeavour to comply with your requests as soon as reasonably possible but please note that changes requested of us may not be effective immediately. Unless required by law, we are not responsible for informing third parties (including without limitation our third party service providers, potential employers, job-posting sites you authorize us to contact on your behalf, or strategic or marketing partners) with whom we have already shared your information of any changes requested pursuant to this section, or for removing information from or causing information to be removed from the databases or records of such entities.
Unless otherwise indicated, the Platform and Services including source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the Platform (Our Content) are owned or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, no part of the Platform, Services or Our Content may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.
Provided that you are eligible to use the Platform, you are granted a limited licence to access and use the Platform and Our Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use.
You shall not (a) try to gain unauthorised access to the Platform or any networks, servers or computer systems connected to the Platform; and/or (b) make for any purpose including error correction, any modifications, adaptions, additions or enhancements to the Platform or Our Content, including the modification of the paper or digital copies you may have downloaded.
We shall (a) prepare the Platform and Our Content with reasonable skill and care; and (b) use industry standard virus detection software to try to block the uploading of content to the Platform that contains viruses.
The content on the Platform is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from taking, any action on the basis of the content on the Platform.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that Our Content on the Platform is accurate, complete or up to date.
The Platform and Services are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. You agree that your use of the Platform and/or Services will be at your sole risk except as expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions. All warranties, terms, conditions and undertakings, express or implied (including by statute, custom or usage, a course of dealing, or common law) in connection with the Platform and Services and your use thereof including, without limitation, the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the Platform’s content and are not liable for any (1) errors or omissions in content: (2) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored on our server; (3) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the site or services; and/or (4) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through the site by any third party. We will not be responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these Terms and Conditions if such delay or failure is caused by an event beyond our reasonable control.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Disclaimer/Limitation of Liability section, our liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to a total aggregate amount equal to the greater of (a) the sum of £75 or (b) the amount paid, if any, by you to us for the Services/Site during the six (6) month period prior to any cause of action arising.
If you are a business user:
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
In particular, we will not be liable for:
If you are a consumer user:
Without limiting any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right to, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, deny access to and use of the Platform and the Services (including blocking certain IP addresses), to any person for any reason including without limitation for breach of any representation, warranty or covenant contained in these Terms and Conditions or of any applicable law or regulation.
If we determine, in our sole discretion, that your use of the Platform/Services is in breach of these Terms and Conditions or of any applicable law or regulation, we may terminate your use or participation in the Platform and the Services or delete your profile and any content or information that you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion.
(a) reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise try to discover the source code of the software/application unless you have first written to us requesting interoperability information and we have failed to provide you with that information or if we have failed to offer to provide you with interoperability information on reasonable conditions”;
(b) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation or derivative work from the application;
(c) breach any applicable laws, rules or regulations in connection with your access or use of the application;
(d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us or the licensors of the application;
(e) use the application for any revenue generating endeavour, commercial enterprise, or other purpose for which it is not designed or intended;
(f) make the application available over a network or other environment permitting access or use by multiple devices or users at the same time;
(g) use the application for creating a product, service or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the application;
(h) use the application to send automated queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial e-mail; or
(i) use any proprietary information or any of our interfaces or our other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing or distribution of any applications, accessories or devices for use with the application.
(a) The licence granted to you for our mobile application is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the application on a device that utilizes the Apple iOS or Android operating system, as applicable, and in accordance with the usage rules set forth in the applicable App Distributor terms of service;
(b) We are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the mobile application as specified in these Terms and Conditions or as otherwise required under applicable law. You acknowledge that each App Distributor has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the mobile application;
(c) In the event of any failure of the mobile application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify an App Distributor, and the App Distributor, in accordance with its terms and policies, may refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the mobile application, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, an App Distributor will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the mobile application;
(d) You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
(e) You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the mobile application, e.g., if you have a VoIP application, then you must not be in breach of their wireless data service agreement when using the mobile application; and
(f) You acknowledge and agree that the App Distributors are third party beneficiaries of these Terms and Conditions, and that each App Distributor will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms and Conditions against you as a third party beneficiary thereof.
Visiting the Platform, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Platform, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.
You hereby agree to the use of electronic signatures, contracts, orders and other records and to electronic delivery of notices, policies and records of transactions initiated or completed by us or via the Platform. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by other than electronic means.