Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: October 30, 2026

Connecting Odds is a professional network and job search service. People use it to find work, hire, and build careers, so trust matters more here than on most sites. This policy explains what you may and may not do. It applies to every member, company page, recruiter, advertiser and automated client, and it sits alongside our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If this policy and the Terms disagree, the Terms win.

1. Be who you say you are

• Use your real name and keep one personal account. Do not create accounts for other people or share logins.
• Do not impersonate a person, employer, recruiter, school or brand, including through look-alike names, logos or usernames.
• Only list jobs, degrees, certifications and employers you actually held or earned. Small honest summaries are fine; invented history is not.
• Create or manage a company page only if the company has authorized you. We record that confirmation and may ask for proof, such as a work email on the company domain.
• If you were blocked or suspended, do not return through a new account, a different device or another network.

2. Honest jobs and hiring

Job seekers share personal details and sometimes money is at stake, so job content has stricter rules.

• Post only real, currently open roles that you are authorized to fill. Close listings when they are filled.
• Never ask candidates to pay a fee, buy equipment or training, deposit a check, or share bank, tax or ID numbers before a genuine offer.
• Do not post pyramid schemes, multi-level marketing pitches dressed as jobs, or "jobs" that are really sales leads.
• State pay, location, workplace type and visa sponsorship accurately. Do not claim sponsorship you will not provide.
• Do not discriminate on protected characteristics such as race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin, except where the law requires a specific qualification.
• Use candidate data you receive only for that hiring process. Do not sell it, add it to unrelated mailing lists or share it with third parties who were not part of the role.

3. Respect other members

• No harassment, threats, bullying, hate speech, or unwanted sexual content or advances.
• No doxxing: do not publish someone's private address, phone number, ID documents or similar details.
• Keep messages relevant. Repeated messages after someone has declined or ignored you count as harassment.
• Do not post private conversations, salary details or performance reviews of other people without their consent.

4. No spam or manipulation

• Do not send bulk or copy-paste connection requests, messages, comments or invites.
• Do not buy, sell or trade followers, endorsements, reactions, reviews or accounts.
• Do not use misleading links, hidden redirects, keyword stuffing or clickbait to drive traffic off the platform.
• Sponsored content must follow our Ad and Sponsored Content Policy and be clearly labelled.

5. Automated access, scraping and AI use

We publish public job data in machine-readable formats on purpose. Search engines and AI assistants may read our public job pages, feeds and the public job search endpoint described in our llms.txt file, within the limits in our robots.txt. Outside those published channels:

• Do not scrape, crawl or bulk-download member profiles, messages, posts, applications or contact details.
• Do not use member content to build profile databases, lead lists, or to train or fine-tune AI models without each member's consent.
• Do not use bots, browser extensions or scripts to log in, apply, connect, message or post on a member's behalf.
• Do not get around rate limits, human checks, blocks or access controls, or hide your identity to do so.

6. Security and safe files

• Do not upload malware, macros designed to run code, or files meant to exploit other people's devices. Every upload is scanned, and flagged files are held from other members.
• Do not probe, attack or overload the service, or try to access accounts or data that are not yours, including by credential stuffing or phishing.
• Found a vulnerability? Report it privately to security@connectingodds.com and give us reasonable time to fix it before disclosure.

7. Illegal and harmful content

• No content that is illegal where you or your audience live, including fraud, counterfeit goods or unlicensed regulated services.
• No content that infringes copyright or trademarks. Rights holders can use our DMCA process.
• Zero tolerance for content that sexually abuses or exploits children (CSAE). It leads to a permanent ban and a report to the authorities. See our Child Safety Standards.

8. How we enforce this policy

We combine member reports, automated checks and human review. Depending on how serious and how repeated a problem is, we may:

• Ask you to fix the content, or add a label or warning to it.
• Remove the content or close the job listing.
• Limit features such as messaging, invites or posting for a period.
• Suspend or permanently block the account, and accounts, devices or networks linked to it.
• Report the matter to law enforcement where the law requires it or someone is at risk.

When we block an account for safety reasons, its posts and messages are hidden from other members and its access to the service ends.

9. Reporting a problem

Use the Report option on any profile, post, job or message, or email abuse@connectingodds.com. Include links or screenshots where you can. We review every report, and we do not tell the reported person who reported them.

10. Appeals

If you think we got a decision wrong, reply to the notice you received or email abuse@connectingodds.com with the subject "Appeal" within 30 days. Tell us what happened and why you think the decision should change. A different reviewer looks at the appeal. We may not restore accounts blocked for child safety, fraud or serious threats.

11. Changes

We update this policy as the product and the law change. The date at the top shows the last real change. Material changes are announced in the product before they take effect.