Terms of Service

These Terms are a legal agreement. By creating an account, logging in, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted these Terms and that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract. If you are using the Service on behalf of a company, organisation, or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and in that case "you" refers both to you personally and to the entity you represent.

If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, or if you do not have the authority to accept them on behalf of the entity you represent, you must not access or use the Service. Continued use of the Service after any modification to these Terms constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms as further described in the Changes section below.

The Service is intended for professional networking, career development, hiring, and related lawful business purposes. You may use the Service only if you are at least sixteen (16) years old, or the age of digital consent in your jurisdiction if higher, and are legally permitted to enter into a binding contract. Where local law requires parental consent for individuals below a specified age, the Service is not intended for those individuals and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we learn we have collected personal information from a person below the applicable age of digital consent without appropriate authorisation, we will delete that information.

You may not use the Service if you have previously been suspended or removed from the Service, unless we have given you written permission to return. You may not use the Service in a jurisdiction where doing so would violate applicable law, sanctions, or export controls. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Service is lawful in the jurisdiction in which you access it.

To use most features of the Service, you must create an account. When you create an account, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete information, and to keep that information up to date. You may not impersonate another person, misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or create an account using a name or contact detail that you do not have the right to use.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure — for example, because your password has been disclosed or your device is lost — you must immediately notify us at security@connectingodds.app and change your password from your account settings. We are not liable for any losses caused by unauthorised use of your account resulting from a failure to comply with this section.

We offer optional account security controls, including multi-factor authentication and sign-in with supported third-party identity providers, and we recommend enabling them. When you sign in with a third-party identity provider, your use of that provider is subject to the provider's own terms, and information may be shared with us as described in our Privacy Policy.

The Service is a professional network. It allows you to build a public profile, follow companies and people, participate in a chronological feed, join groups, exchange direct messages after establishing a connection, publish and respond to job postings, participate in voice or video conversations with connections, schedule meetings, and — for recruiters and companies — manage an applicant tracking pipeline connected to your job postings. Some features are available only on paid tiers, only in certain regions, or only after identity or domain verification, and we may add, remove or modify features from time to time as described in the Changes section below.

We aim to keep the Service available at all times, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Access to the Service depends on network conditions, third-party providers, and periodic maintenance. We may schedule downtime for maintenance and, where practical, will announce planned downtime in advance. We may also suspend access to the Service in response to security incidents, legal requests, or other events that materially affect the integrity or safety of the Service.

You retain ownership of the content you submit to the Service, including your profile information, messages, posts, comments, media, job postings, application materials, resumes, and other materials (collectively, "User Content"). Ownership of the underlying rights in your User Content is not transferred to us by uploading it. We do not claim ownership of your User Content and we do not sell your personal User Content to third parties.

To operate the Service, however, we need a license to store, transmit, display and process your User Content. By submitting User Content to the Service, you grant Connecting Odds a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (to our service providers only, and solely for the purpose of operating the Service on our behalf), and transferable (in connection with a change of control of Connecting Odds) license to host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, modify (for example, to resize an image), translate (for example, to display an interface language you have selected), and create derivative works of your User Content, in each case solely to the extent necessary to provide, secure, and improve the Service, to enforce these Terms, and to comply with applicable law. This license ends when you delete the User Content or delete your account, subject to the retention practices described in our Privacy Policy and the deletion section below.

You represent and warrant that you own or have obtained all rights necessary to submit your User Content to the Service and to grant the license above, and that your User Content does not infringe or otherwise violate the rights of any third party. You are solely responsible for your User Content and for the consequences of submitting it. We may, but are not obligated to, review, monitor, remove, or restrict access to User Content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or applicable law, or that we believe is otherwise objectionable.

Some parts of your profile are public by default and can be viewed by anyone with the profile URL and, in some cases, indexed by public search engines. Other parts of your data — including your Open To Work status, your applications, your saved searches, and your direct messages — are private by default and visible only to the audiences you choose or to counterparties in a conversation. Our privacy controls are enforced at the database layer through row-level security policies. You are responsible for the audience settings you choose and for the content you decide to publish publicly.

You agree to use the Service only for lawful, professional networking, career development, hiring and related purposes, and in compliance with these Terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, and applicable law. Without limiting the more detailed rules in our Acceptable Use Policy, you agree that you will not, and will not permit anyone else acting on your behalf to:

• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including export controls, employment law, consumer protection law, and anti-discrimination law;
• Impersonate any person or entity, misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or create a profile in a name that is not yours or that you do not have the right to use;
• Harass, threaten, defame, stalk, or discriminate against any other user of the Service, or engage in conduct that is otherwise abusive or intended to intimidate;
• Send unsolicited bulk messages, chain messages, promotional messages to users who have not opted in to receive them, or otherwise use the Service in a manner that would reasonably be considered spam;
• Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Service, including rate limits, connection-gated messaging, and audience-scoped visibility controls;
• Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Service, our systems, or the technical delivery systems of our providers;
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or any related system or network except under the terms of our published responsible disclosure program;
• Scrape, crawl, or extract data from the Service through automated means, including headless browsers, except through a documented API endpoint we make available and subject to the applicable rate limits and access terms;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except as permitted by applicable law that cannot be waived by contract;
• Use the Service to build, train, or evaluate a machine learning model or a database that competes with or substitutes for the Service, or that is intended to displace the professionals who created the underlying User Content;
• Publish, post, upload, or otherwise submit content that infringes any third party's intellectual property or privacy rights, that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, or hateful, or that promotes violence, self-harm, or illegal activity;
• Upload malware, viruses, or any other code intended to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorised access to any system, or use the Service to distribute or coordinate the same;
• Post fraudulent job listings, misrepresent a role you are hiring for, or use the recruiter tools to collect personal information under false pretenses;
• Use the Service in a way that materially interferes with other users' use of the Service.

We investigate reports of prohibited conduct. Violations of this section, our Acceptable Use Policy, or applicable law may result in warnings, feature limits, content removal, account suspension, or account termination as described in the Suspension section below, and we may report unlawful conduct to law enforcement authorities.

If you use the Service as a recruiter, hiring manager, employer branding lead, or on behalf of a company or agency ("Recruiter Uses"), the additional terms in this section apply to you in addition to the rest of these Terms. If your role changes between recruiter and non-recruiter uses within the same account, the sections of these Terms that apply to your then-current use apply while you are engaged in that use.

When you use the recruiter tools, applicant tracking pipeline, company page, or job posting features, you are acting as an independent controller of the personal information you collect and process about candidates through the Service, except where we act as your processor under a signed Data Processing instrument. You are responsible for having a lawful basis for your processing, for providing appropriate notices to candidates, and for responding to candidate rights requests concerning data you control. You agree not to use candidate personal information obtained from the Service for any purpose other than recruiting, hiring and related evaluation activities described to the candidate, and not to sell, redistribute, or repurpose that information to unrelated third parties.

You agree to comply with all applicable employment and anti-discrimination laws in every jurisdiction where you post roles or engage candidates, including without limitation laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, or genetic information, where those laws apply to you. You are solely responsible for the content of your job postings, for the accuracy of role descriptions, for compliance with wage-transparency laws in jurisdictions that require them, and for the conduct of your recruiters on the Service.

You will not use the Service to source candidates in violation of any applicable non-solicitation agreement to which you are subject, and you will not use the Service to run background checks, credit checks, or similar consumer reporting activities except through a properly authorised consumer reporting agency and with the disclosures and authorisations required by applicable law. Sponsored, promoted, or paid job postings are subject to any additional promotional terms disclosed to you at the point of purchase.

If you use the Service to look for work, submit applications, or make yourself discoverable to recruiters ("Job Seeker Uses"), the additional terms in this section apply to you.

When you apply to a role posted on the Service, information from your profile, your uploaded resume, and any answers you provide during the application flow is transmitted to the recruiter, hiring team, or company that posted the role. That recipient becomes an independent controller of the information they receive from you and their own privacy notices govern their subsequent handling of it. We are not responsible for the recipient's practices; we are responsible for the transmission itself and for the handling of the information within our own systems as described in our Privacy Policy.

Turning on Open To Work publishes a private signal that is visible only to the audience you choose. Even with careful controls, however, no signal shared with a third party can be guaranteed to remain private — a recipient who sees the signal is free to describe it to others outside the Service. Consider your audience carefully. You can turn Open To Work off at any time from your account settings, and the change takes effect on the next read of your profile.

The Service may contain links to third-party websites, applications, or services, and it may allow you to connect your account with third-party identity providers, calendar systems, single-sign-on providers, or other integrations. We do not control, and are not responsible for, third-party services. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that service's own terms and privacy policy. When you connect a third-party service to the Service, you authorise us to exchange information with that service to the extent necessary to provide the requested integration, and you should review the third party's terms before doing so.

We do not endorse any third-party service linked from the Service and we do not warrant its availability, accuracy, or safety. If a third-party service becomes unavailable or changes its terms in a way that affects the Service, we may modify or discontinue the affected integration on reasonable notice.

The core Service is available at no charge. Certain features — including but not limited to premium employer branding, team seat expansions, advanced permissions, promoted job posts, and enterprise administration controls — are available on paid tiers or as one-time purchases (each, a "Paid Feature"). The fees, billing cycle, renewal terms, and refund policy for each Paid Feature are disclosed to you at the point of purchase and, when you complete the purchase, are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

Subscriptions to Paid Features renew automatically at the end of each billing cycle at the then-current rate for that feature, unless you cancel before the renewal date. You can view and cancel active subscriptions from your account billing page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle; you retain access to the Paid Feature through the end of that cycle. Except as expressly stated in these Terms, at the point of purchase, or as required by applicable law, fees paid to us are non-refundable.

We may change our fees for Paid Features by giving you advance notice through the Service, by email, or both, and the new fees will apply from the next billing cycle after the notice period. If a change of fees applies to your subscription and you do not agree to it, you may cancel the affected subscription before the new fees take effect. Taxes are your responsibility except where we are required by law to collect them; where required, applicable taxes will be added to the fees you pay. You authorise us to charge your designated payment method for all fees, taxes, and other amounts due under these Terms, and you agree to keep your payment information current. Payment processing is performed by a third-party payment provider whose terms and privacy notice govern the payment step.

We may offer free trials, credits, discounts, or other promotional offers from time to time on our own initiative or through partners. The specific terms of each offer — including duration, eligibility, renewal behaviour, and the fees that apply at the end of the offer — are disclosed at the point where the offer is presented and, when you accept the offer, are incorporated into these Terms by reference. Unless a promotional offer expressly states otherwise, only one offer may be applied to any given transaction, and offers are not transferable, may not be redeemed for cash, and may be modified or withdrawn at any time.

Where a free trial converts to a paid subscription at the end of the trial, we will remind you of the upcoming conversion by email in advance of the conversion date, and you may cancel before the conversion to avoid being charged. If you continue past the conversion date, the subscription becomes subject to the renewal terms in the Fees section above.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business use as described in these Terms. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by Connecting Odds and its licensors.

Connecting Odds, the Connecting Odds logo, and other Connecting Odds marks are trademarks of Connecting Odds. All other trademarks, service marks, and trade names appearing on the Service are the property of their respective owners. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right to use any trademark, service mark, or trade name of Connecting Odds or any third party without the prior written consent of the owner.

If you send us ideas, suggestions, feature requests, or other feedback about the Service, you agree that we may use, evaluate, and implement your feedback without any restriction and without any obligation to you, and that your feedback does not create any expectation of confidentiality or any obligation of compensation on our part. If you would like your feedback to be kept confidential, please tell us in writing before you send it.

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our users to do the same. If you believe that material on the Service infringes your copyright, please submit a notice through the process described in our DMCA Policy. That page describes the required contents of a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the process for submitting a counter-notice, and how to reach our designated agent. We may remove content and, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of users we reasonably believe are repeat infringers.

Our Privacy Policy describes what personal information we collect, how we use it, how it is shared, how long it is kept, and the rights and choices you have. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the Privacy Policy. Where you use the Service to process personal information belonging to third parties in the course of your own recruiting or hiring activities, our Data Processing terms describe the respective roles of the parties and the safeguards that apply.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Service if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, or applicable law; if your account presents a security or safety risk to Connecting Odds or its users; if we are required to do so by law or a competent authority; or if the account has been inactive for an extended period as described in our Privacy Policy. For material violations we will, where practical and where doing so does not compromise an investigation, notify you of the action and the general reason for it.

If you believe your account has been suspended or terminated in error, you may appeal by contacting us at appeals@connectingodds.app within thirty (30) days of the action. We will review appeals in good faith and communicate the outcome through the same channel. Nothing in this section limits your rights under applicable law.

You may stop using the Service at any time. Upon termination of your account by either party, sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including User Content licenses to the extent necessary to preserve residual copies in backups, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution — will survive.

You can delete your account from your account settings. When you delete your account, we begin the process described in our Privacy Policy: your public profile is removed from the Service, active conversations and applications are updated to reflect that you have left, and the associated records are queued for deletion within the timelines set out in the Privacy Policy. Some records may be retained for longer where we have a legal obligation to keep them (for example, tax, audit, or dispute records), or where they are held in encrypted backups that are rotated out over time. Retained records remain subject to the safeguards described in the Privacy Policy.

Deletion is irreversible. If you wish to preserve any of your User Content — including messages, applications, or job postings — you should export it from your account before you delete it. Where an export function is available for a given data type, it is documented in the Privacy Policy.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. Connecting Odds and its affiliates, licensors, and service providers expressly disclaim all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade.

Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that it will operate uninterrupted, timely, securely, or error-free, that any defects will be corrected, or that the Service or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any User Content, job posting, profile, review, or other content available through the Service, and we do not guarantee any specific hiring, career, or business outcome from your use of the Service. You use the Service at your own discretion and risk and are solely responsible for any resulting damage to your device or loss of data.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some or all of the exclusions above may not apply to you. In that case, such warranties are limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will Connecting Odds, its affiliates, licensors, or service providers be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Service, whether based on contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not Connecting Odds has been informed of the possibility of such damages.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, our total cumulative liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service, whether in contract, tort, or under any other theory of liability, is limited to the greater of (a) the total amounts paid by you to Connecting Odds for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the liability, or (b) one hundred US dollars (USD $100). The existence of one or more claims will not enlarge this limit.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for certain types of damages, so some or all of the limitations above may not apply to you. In that case, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including any liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Connecting Odds and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms; (b) your User Content, (c) your violation of any right of a third party, including any intellectual property or privacy right; or (d) any claim by a candidate, employee, contractor, or other third party arising out of your Recruiter Uses of the Service. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with our defense of that matter.

Before filing a claim against Connecting Odds, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting us at legal@connectingodds.app with a written description of the dispute, the specific relief you are seeking, and your contact information. We will attempt to resolve the dispute informally, and neither party may start a formal proceeding for at least sixty (60) days after your notice, except that either party may seek urgent injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction at any time.

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which Connecting Odds is organised, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, and the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in that jurisdiction, except where applicable consumer protection law grants you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts and to have your local law apply, in which case those rights are preserved and are not limited by this section. Where required by applicable law, the specific governing-law and venue terms that apply to you will be disclosed in a country-specific supplement referenced from this section.

Where required by applicable law, we may also offer a mutually agreed dispute-resolution mechanism, such as arbitration, mediation, or an online dispute resolution portal. If a specific arbitration or class action waiver clause would apply to your relationship with us, it will be presented to you in a country-specific supplement before it takes effect and you will have an opportunity to opt out of the class action waiver in the manner described in that supplement. Nothing in this section is intended to limit your non-waivable rights under applicable law.

We may modify the Service and these Terms from time to time. When we make a material change to these Terms, we will update the Last updated date at the top of this document and notify you through the Service, by email, or both, in advance of the change taking effect where practical. The definition of "material" is applied in good faith and includes, at a minimum, any change that expands your obligations, limits your rights, alters the fees for a Paid Feature you already subscribe to, or changes the governing-law or dispute-resolution terms in a way that affects you.

Non-material changes — for example, clarifying language, correcting typographical errors, or updating links — may be made without advance notice, but the Last updated date will still be revised so that the change is visible. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the modified Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you must stop using the Service and, where applicable, cancel any paid subscriptions before the change takes effect. Earlier versions of these Terms are retained for reference and can be requested by contacting us.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the policies referenced in them and any specific terms disclosed to you at the point of purchase of a Paid Feature, constitute the entire agreement between you and Connecting Odds regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings, whether written or oral, regarding the Service.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect, and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be replaced by a valid and enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or of any other provision. A waiver of any provision is effective only if in writing and signed by an authorised representative of Connecting Odds.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent, and any attempted assignment in violation of this section is void. We may assign these Terms without your consent to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of substantially all of our assets, subject to our obligations under the Privacy Policy.

Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, accidents, network infrastructure failures, strikes, or shortages of transportation, facilities, fuel, energy, labour, or materials.

Notices. Notices to you may be sent by email to the address associated with your account, by posting a notice on the Service, or by any other reasonable means. Notices to us must be sent to legal@connectingodds.app and, where a physical address is required by applicable law, to the address disclosed on our contact page.

No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates an agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and Connecting Odds. Neither party has any authority to bind the other in any respect.

Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. The words "including", "include", and "for example" are not words of limitation.

If you have questions about these Terms, or if you wish to make a request or provide a notice under any provision of these Terms, please contact us:

• General legal questions: legal@connectingodds.app
• Privacy and data requests: privacy@connectingodds.app
• Security disclosures: security@connectingodds.app
• Trust and safety reports: safety@connectingodds.app
• Copyright complaints: dmca@connectingodds.app
• Appeals of enforcement decisions: appeals@connectingodds.app

You can also visit our contact page for other ways to reach us.

These Terms are maintained by Connecting Odds and describe our current terms of service. They are not an independent verification or certification of any specific standard. See our legal hub for a summary of every policy and how they fit together.