Terms of service

1. Who can use it

• You must be 18 or over.
• Give accurate details, and use your own account. Don’t pretend to be someone else.
• If you use Shortlist.expert for a company, you confirm you’re allowed to act for it, and these terms apply to the company too.

2. Your account

• You sign in with Google, or with a password if you set one. Keep your Google account and password secure.
• You’re responsible for what happens in your account. If you think someone else has used it, email us straight away.
• You can delete your account at any time from your account page.

3. For hiring teams

4. For applicants

• Send work you made or worked on, and say honestly what your part was. Don’t present other people’s work as yours.
• Check you’re allowed to share it. Remove anything a client asked you to keep confidential.
• The company you apply to sees what you send it. Your profile and everything else stay private unless you turn them on.
• Each company makes its own decisions. We don’t promise replies, interviews or work, and we’re not part of any agreement between you and a company.
• Real companies don’t charge you to apply. If a post asks for money, report it.

5. Your content

• You keep ownership of what you add: posts, work, answers, notes and messages.
• You give us permission to store, copy, show and process it only to run Shortlist.expert. For example, to show an application to the team you sent it to, show a published post to the public, or make previews of uploaded work.
• This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from short-lived backups and what our privacy policy says a company keeps.
• You confirm you have the right to share what you add, and that it doesn’t break the law or anyone else’s rights.

6. Acceptable use

Don’t use Shortlist.expert to:

• break the law, or post content that’s misleading, hateful, harassing, sexual or violent;
• run scams, fake jobs, pyramid schemes or anything that charges applicants;
• upload malware, or content you don’t have the rights to;
• scrape, bulk-download or copy data from Shortlist.expert, or use bots on it, other than search engines on public pages;
• get into accounts, data or systems you aren’t allowed into, or test our security without asking us first;
• overload or disrupt the service, or get around its limits;
• send spam, or copy or resell the service.

7. AI

• Hiring teams can use AI to draft and edit posts and application forms from what they give it.
• Drafts can be wrong or incomplete. Check them before you publish.
• AI never reads, scores, ranks or rejects applicants. People decide.

8. Reporting and removal

• Report a post with “Report this post” on its job page, or email us.
• We may remove content, pause or close posts, or suspend or close accounts that break these terms or put people at risk. Where we can, we’ll tell you why.
• If you think we got it wrong, email us and we’ll look again.

9. Fees

Shortlist.expert is free to use right now. If we add paid plans, we’ll tell you before anything is charged, and nothing is charged without your agreement.

10. Our service

• Shortlist.expert is new, and it will change. We may add, change or remove features, and pause the service for maintenance.
• We work to keep it running and secure, but we can’t promise it will always be available or free of errors.
• Our name, logo and software belong to us. These terms let you use the service, and nothing more.

11. Other services

Shortlist.expert links to and works with other services, like Google sign-in, WhatsApp and LinkedIn sharing, and the portfolio links applicants add. Their own terms apply, and we’re not responsible for them.

12. Disclaimers

• We don’t check every post or applicant, and we don’t promise that what people add is accurate.
• We don’t promise any hire, any number of applicants or any result.
• Hiring decisions, and any work, pay or contract that follows, are between the company and the applicant.
• As far as the law allows, Shortlist.expert is provided “as is” and “as available”, without other promises.

13. Liability

• As far as the law allows, we’re not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for lost profits, data, opportunities or goodwill.
• Our total liability for all claims about Shortlist.expert is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and $100.
• If you use Shortlist.expert for a business, you’ll cover our reasonable costs from claims caused by your posts, your use of applicants’ data or your breaking these terms.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn’t allow us to limit, or your rights as a consumer.

14. Ending these terms

• You can stop using Shortlist.expert and delete your account at any time.
• We can suspend or close your access if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if we stop running the service. Unless there’s a risk to people or the service, we’ll give you notice first.
• Sections 5, 12, 13, 16 and 17 keep applying after these terms end.

15. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we’ll update the date at the top. For changes that matter, we’ll email you or show a notice in the app before they take effect. If you keep using Shortlist.expert after that, the new terms apply. If you don’t agree, stop using it and delete your account.

16. Law and disputes

• These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India decide disputes about them.
• If you’re a consumer, you can also use the laws and courts where you live, if they give you that right.
• Before going to court, email us so we can try to sort it out together.

17. General

• These terms and our privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Shortlist.expert.
• If part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don’t enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You can’t transfer these terms to someone else without our agreement. We can transfer them if Shortlist.expert is sold or merged.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@shortlist.expert

Complaints about content or how we apply these terms: email hello@shortlist.expert with “Grievance” in the subject. We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and aim to resolve them within 15 days.