Terms of Service

01Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use RecruitMap.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, including if you are 16 or 17 years old, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian. By using the Service, you represent that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf where required by applicable law.

You may not use the Service if you are prohibited from doing so under applicable law.

02About RecruitMap

RecruitMap provides a platform through which users can share and view information relating to recruiting processes, including information about employers, firms, offices, roles, recruiting stages, interviews, application outcomes, and related recruiting experiences.

RecruitMap may display individual user submissions, aggregated information, statistics, trends, estimates, summaries, or other information derived from user submissions.

RecruitMap is an independent platform. RecruitMap is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or officially connected with any employer, recruiting firm, company, university, or organization referenced through the Service unless expressly stated otherwise.

Names, logos, trademarks, and other intellectual property belonging to third parties remain the property of their respective owners.

03Accounts

Certain features may require you to create an account.

You agree to:

• provide accurate information when creating and maintaining your account;
• maintain the security and confidentiality of your login credentials;
• promptly update information that becomes inaccurate;
• not share your account in a manner that circumvents these Terms;
• not create accounts using false identities or impersonate another person; and
• notify RecruitMap if you believe your account has been compromised.

You are responsible for activity occurring through your account to the extent permitted by applicable law.

We may establish limits on account creation, submissions, access, or use of particular features.

04User Submissions

The Service may allow you to submit recruiting-related information (“User Content”), including information such as:

• employer or firm;
• role;
• internship or full-time status;
• office or location;
• recruiting stage;
• application or interview status;
• interview invitations;
• offers or rejections;
• recruiting dates or timing;
• school or university;
• graduation year;
• GPA;
• referral status;
• username; and
• other information or content made available through submission features.

Public Information

RecruitMap is designed around public and aggregated recruiting information.

Information you submit may be displayed publicly to other users.

You should not submit information you do not want publicly associated with your RecruitMap profile or submission.

The visibility of particular information may change as the Service evolves.

05Truthfulness of Submissions

By submitting recruiting information to RecruitMap, you certify that, to the best of your knowledge:

1. the information is truthful and not intentionally misleading;
2. the recruiting experience or outcome you report is based on your own genuine recruiting experience;
3. you are not knowingly fabricating an application, interview, offer, rejection, recruiting stage, or other event;
4. you are not submitting information for the purpose of manipulating RecruitMap's statistics, trends, or perceived recruiting activity; and
5. your submission does not violate these Terms or applicable law.

RecruitMap does not independently verify every submission and does not guarantee that User Content is accurate.

06License to User Content

You retain any ownership rights you may have in User Content you submit.

By submitting User Content, you grant RecruitMap a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, process, format, display, distribute, analyze, aggregate, and otherwise use your User Content as reasonably necessary to:

• operate the Service;
• display your submissions;
• provide recruiting information to users;
• generate aggregated statistics and trends;
• analyze and improve the Service;
• detect fraud, abuse, manipulation, or security issues;
• develop new RecruitMap functionality; and
• maintain historical recruiting information.

This license permits RecruitMap to create aggregated, statistical, and de-identified information derived from User Content.

To the extent permitted by law, aggregated or de-identified data may be retained after your account or identifiable User Content has been deleted.

RecruitMap does not claim ownership of your original User Content.

You represent that you have all rights necessary to submit your User Content and grant the rights described in these Terms.

07Prohibited Content

You may not submit, upload, publish, transmit, or otherwise make available content that:

• is knowingly false, fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading;
• impersonates another applicant, recruiter, interviewer, employer, or person;
• contains confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information that you are not authorized to disclose;
• contains nonpublic interview questions, case interview materials, assessment questions, tests, examination materials, answer keys, or similar restricted recruiting materials;
• contains screenshots or copies of confidential recruiting communications when you are not authorized to share them;
• contains confidential offer letters, employment agreements, or similar documents;
• reveals private recruiter or interviewer contact information;
• reveals personally identifying information about another applicant without authorization;
• violates another person's privacy, publicity, copyright, trademark, intellectual property, contractual, or other rights;
• is defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or unlawfully discriminatory;
• promotes illegal activity;
• contains malware, malicious code, or harmful software;
• is spam or unauthorized advertising;
• is submitted in exchange for compensation for the purpose of manipulating RecruitMap;
• artificially manipulates recruiting statistics or platform activity; or
• otherwise violates applicable law or these Terms.

You are responsible for ensuring that information you submit may legally be shared.

08Prohibited Uses

You may not, directly or indirectly:

• scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, index, or systematically extract data from RecruitMap without our prior written permission;
• use bots, automated scripts, browser automation, or similar tools to access or collect information from the Service except where expressly authorized by RecruitMap;
• bulk download or reproduce RecruitMap data;
• use RecruitMap data to create, train, populate, supplement, or operate a competing recruiting database, tracker, website, application, product, or service;
• commercially sell, license, sublicense, redistribute, publish, or otherwise commercially exploit RecruitMap data without our prior written permission;
• use RecruitMap content for commercial research, commercial analytics, recruiting services, or commercial datasets without our prior written permission;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code from any non-public portion of the Service except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law;
• circumvent access controls, rate limits, authentication systems, security measures, or technical restrictions;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, databases, servers, systems, or networks;
• probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities without our written authorization;
• introduce malware, harmful code, or malicious requests;
• attempt to identify, deanonymize, correlate, expose, or discover the real-world identity of users who have chosen to participate anonymously or pseudonymously;
• create fake accounts to manipulate data;
• coordinate submissions intended to create a false impression of recruiting activity;
• use the Service to stalk, harass, investigate, or profile another person;
• falsely represent yourself as RecruitMap or as acting on RecruitMap's behalf;
• remove copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notices; or
• encourage or assist another person in violating these Terms.

RecruitMap may use technical and legal measures to prevent or respond to prohibited use.

09Commercial Use of RecruitMap Data

RecruitMap is intended primarily for personal, informational use unless we expressly authorize another use.

Recruiters, employers, consulting firms, financial institutions, media organizations, data providers, research organizations, commercial analytics providers, and other businesses may not commercially reproduce, redistribute, sell, license, scrape, republish, or exploit RecruitMap's data or databases without RecruitMap's prior written permission.

Permission may be granted, denied, conditioned, or revoked at RecruitMap's discretion.

Nothing in these Terms prevents users from discussing their own recruiting experiences or otherwise exercising rights that cannot lawfully be restricted.

10Moderation and Enforcement

RecruitMap has no obligation to host, retain, publish, or continue displaying any User Content.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RecruitMap reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to:

• review User Content;
• investigate suspicious activity;
• flag submissions;
• remove submissions;
• hide submissions;
• reduce the visibility of submissions;
• exclude submissions from statistics or aggregations;
• correct obvious formatting or technical errors;
• request additional information;
• restrict features;
• suspend accounts;
• terminate accounts;
• prevent users from creating replacement accounts;
• block devices, IP addresses, accounts, or other identifiers;
• preserve information when reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or dispute resolution; and
• take any other action we reasonably determine is appropriate to protect RecruitMap, its users, third parties, or the integrity of the Service.

We may take these actions with or without advance notice.

We are not required to provide an explanation for a moderation or enforcement decision except where required by applicable law.

Failure to enforce a provision of these Terms in one instance does not waive our right to enforce it later.

11No Verification or Guarantee of Recruiting Data

RecruitMap is crowdsourced.

RecruitMap does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, authenticity, reliability, availability, or timeliness of any recruiting information displayed through the Service.

User submissions may be:

• inaccurate;
• incomplete;
• outdated;
• delayed;
• duplicated;
• fabricated;
• misunderstood;
• incorrectly categorized; or
• affected by selection bias or an unrepresentative sample of applicants.

Statistics, trends, percentages, timelines, and aggregated information may therefore differ materially from the actual recruiting activity of an employer.

RecruitMap does not represent that a displayed recruiting stage means that all applicants, offices, schools, roles, or candidates have reached the same stage.

12Do Not Rely on RecruitMap as an Official Recruiting Source

RecruitMap is provided for informational purposes.

Do not rely on RecruitMap as the official source for:

• application deadlines;
• interview decisions;
• hiring decisions;
• recruiting timelines;
• eligibility requirements;
• offer status;
• rejection status;
• office availability;
• employment terms;
• compensation;
• application requirements; or
• communications from an employer.

You are responsible for verifying important recruiting information directly with the applicable employer or other official source.

A RecruitMap submission indicating that another applicant received an interview, rejection, offer, or other update does not mean that you have or have not received the same outcome.

RecruitMap is not responsible for missed applications, deadlines, interviews, opportunities, offers, or other consequences resulting from reliance on information available through the Service.

13RecruitMap Is Not a Recruiter or Employment Service

RecruitMap does not make hiring decisions and does not control employer recruiting processes.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, RecruitMap is not acting as:

• an employer;
• recruiter;
• staffing agency;
• employment agency;
• career counselor;
• admissions advisor;
• representative of any listed firm; or
• agent of any applicant or employer.

Nothing on RecruitMap constitutes a promise or guarantee of employment, an interview, an offer, or any other recruiting outcome.

14Third-Party Organizations and Services

The Service may reference employers, universities, recruiting organizations, websites, products, services, or other third parties.

Such references do not constitute an endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, or affiliation.

RecruitMap does not control third-party recruiting processes or third-party services and is not responsible for their actions, content, policies, availability, security, or practices.

Your use of third-party services may be governed by separate terms and privacy policies.

15Privacy

Your use of RecruitMap is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

By using the Service, you acknowledge that information you intentionally submit to public portions of RecruitMap may be visible to other users and potentially to anyone with access to the Service.

Account deletion, data deletion, retention, and de-identification will be handled as described in the Privacy Policy and applicable law.

16RecruitMap Intellectual Property

Except for User Content and third-party materials, the Service and its underlying content and technology—including its design, layout, software, code, databases, database structure, compilations, analytics, features, branding, text, graphics, and other materials—are owned by or licensed to RecruitMap and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Subject to these Terms, RecruitMap grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for its intended purposes.

No other rights are granted.

17Feedback

If you voluntarily provide suggestions, feature ideas, comments, improvements, or other feedback about RecruitMap (“Feedback”), you grant RecruitMap the right to use that Feedback without restriction or compensation to you.

You acknowledge that RecruitMap may independently develop features or products that are similar to ideas contained in Feedback.

18Intellectual Property Complaints

If you believe content available through RecruitMap infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, contact:

support@recruitmap.org

Your notice should identify the material at issue, the rights you believe are being infringed, your contact information, and sufficient information for RecruitMap to evaluate the request.

RecruitMap may remove or restrict access to allegedly infringing material and may terminate users who repeatedly violate intellectual-property rights.

19Paid Features

RecruitMap may introduce subscriptions, premium features, paid analytics, or other paid products in the future.

If we offer paid features, the applicable price, billing terms, renewal terms, cancellation rules, and any additional conditions will be disclosed when you purchase them.

Additional terms presented at purchase may supplement these Terms.

Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers.

Except where otherwise stated at purchase or required by applicable law, fees paid to RecruitMap are non-refundable once the applicable paid service has been provided.

RecruitMap may change or discontinue paid features subject to applicable law and any commitments made at the time of purchase.

20Changes to the Service

RecruitMap is an evolving service.

We may at any time add, remove, modify, test, suspend, restrict, discontinue, or change any portion of the Service.

We do not guarantee that:

• any particular feature will remain available;
• User Content will remain accessible indefinitely;
• the Service will always be free;
• a particular employer, role, office, or recruiting cycle will remain listed; or
• the Service will operate without interruption.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RecruitMap is not liable for modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Service.

21Account Termination

You may stop using RecruitMap at any time.

RecruitMap may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account or access to all or part of the Service if we reasonably believe:

• you violated these Terms;
• your activity presents legal, security, fraud, abuse, or reputational risk;
• your activity threatens the integrity of RecruitMap's data;
• your account is being used in an unauthorized manner; or
• suspension or termination is otherwise reasonably necessary to protect RecruitMap, its users, or third parties.

We may also discontinue accounts or the Service for business or operational reasons.

Upon termination, rights granted to you under these Terms end immediately.

Provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including provisions concerning User Content licenses, de-identified or aggregated data, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and enforcement—will survive.

22Disclaimer of Warranties

RECRUITMAP DOES NOT WARRANT THAT:

• THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE;
• USER CONTENT WILL BE TRUTHFUL;
• RECRUITING DATA WILL REFLECT AN EMPLOYER'S ACTUAL PROCESS;
• THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE;
• DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED;
• THE SERVICE WILL BE SECURE OR FREE FROM HARMFUL COMPONENTS;
• INFORMATION WILL NOT BE LOST;
• ANY PARTICULAR FEATURE WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE; OR
• USE OF THE SERVICE WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR RECRUITING OR EMPLOYMENT OUTCOME.

YOU USE THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the foregoing may not apply to you.

23Limitation of Liability

This includes, without limitation, losses arising from:

• reliance on recruiting information;
• inaccurate or fraudulent User Content;
• missed deadlines or opportunities;
• recruiting or employment decisions;
• account suspension or termination;
• removal of User Content;
• unauthorized access to an account;
• service interruptions;
• data loss;
• actions of other users;
• actions of employers or recruiters;
• third-party services; or
• modification or discontinuation of the Service.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RECRUITMAP'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF:

(A) $100; OR
(B) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID DIRECTLY TO RECRUITMAP DURING THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

The limitations in this section apply to the fullest extent permitted by law even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

24Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless RecruitMap and its current or future owners, operators, affiliates, successors, assigns, service providers, contractors, representatives, and agents from and against claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, expenses, and reasonable legal fees arising out of or relating to:

• your User Content;
• your violation of these Terms;
• your misuse of the Service;
• your violation of applicable law;
• your infringement or violation of another person's rights;
• information you disclose without authorization;
• your fraudulent or intentionally misleading submissions; or
• your unauthorized commercial use of RecruitMap data.

RecruitMap reserves the right to assume control of the defense of a matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to reasonably cooperate with that defense.

This section applies only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

25Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except to the extent applicable law requires otherwise.

Mandatory consumer protections or other rights that cannot legally be waived remain unaffected.

26Disputes and Venue

RecruitMap does not require mandatory arbitration under these Terms.

Subject to any rights that cannot legally be waived, any lawsuit or legal proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought exclusively in a state or federal court of competent jurisdiction located in the State of Delaware, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you and RecruitMap agree to bring claims against each other only in your or its individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in a purported class, consolidated, or representative proceeding.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking temporary, preliminary, or injunctive relief where legally available, including relief relating to unauthorized access, scraping, intellectual-property infringement, misuse of RecruitMap data, or threats to the security or integrity of the Service.

27Changes to These Terms

RecruitMap may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may provide notice through the Service, by email, by updating the effective or “Last Updated” date, or through another reasonable method.

Unless otherwise stated, updated Terms become effective when posted or on the effective date specified with the updated Terms.

Where applicable law requires additional notice or affirmative consent, RecruitMap will provide it.

Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by law.

If you do not agree with updated Terms, you must stop using the Service.

28Electronic Communications

By using RecruitMap, you agree that agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications may be provided electronically where permitted by law.

Electronic communications may include notices provided through the Service or sent to the email address associated with your account.

You are responsible for maintaining an accurate email address where required for your account.

29Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without RecruitMap's prior written consent.

RecruitMap may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, to an affiliate, successor, purchaser, or entity that acquires or operates RecruitMap or substantially all of its relevant assets, including in connection with the formation of a legal entity, merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale, or transfer of the Service.

30Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent legally permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

31No Waiver

RecruitMap's failure to exercise or enforce a right or provision of these Terms does not waive that right or provision.

Any waiver must be expressly made by RecruitMap.

32Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms expressly presented for particular features or purchases, constitute the entire agreement between you and RecruitMap regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements concerning the same subject matter.

If additional terms for a particular feature conflict with these Terms, the additional terms will control with respect to that feature to the extent of the conflict.

33Headings

Section headings are provided for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Terms.

34Contact

Questions, legal notices, or concerns regarding these Terms may be sent to: