Effective from 6th October 2024
All websites owned and operated by The Stepstone Group UK Limited (“Stepstone Group UK” also referred to as “We,” “Our” or “Us”), including this website (each a “Site”), are made available to you on the following terms and conditions. By using a Site and the services available on it you are deemed to accept these terms and conditions and any additional terms and conditions which expressly apply to services and information provided by third parties.
We are registered in England and Wales under company number 04269861 and have Our registered office at Blue Fin, 110 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0TA. Our main trading address is Blue Fin, 110 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0TA. Our VAT number is GB 135068522. We are a limited company.
To contact us, please fill out our Contact us form or telephone Our customer service line on 0333 0145 111.
Our use of CVs and other personal information supplied by users of our Sites is governed by our privacy policy.
Please click here to view our Privacy policy.
You agree to deal fairly and professionally and in accordance with requirements set forth in the Employment Rights Act 1996, Equality Act 2010 and any other applicable laws with individuals who may respond to an advertisement you have posted and with Jobseekers you may contact using information from the Candidate Database. You must not do anything which may bring Us or a Site into disrepute. You will indemnify Us from and against any claim brought by an individual against Us arising from your breach of this obligation or any other of these Recruiter Terms.
The information and services available on the site are provided for the sole purpose of individuals looking for employment opportunities and career information and for employers seeking to recruit staff. You may use, print and download information from the site for these purposes only and for no other personal or commercial purpose. You may not otherwise copy, display, transmit or distribute any material from the site and if you do or if you perform any other unauthorised processing of information on the site it shall be deemed a material breach of these terms and conditions which, in the case of a Customer, shall entitle us to terminate the Services immediately on notice in writing. Further, we reserve the right to suspend provision of the Services to you in circumstances where we reasonably believe that you have performed any unauthorised processing of information. In respect of any personal data accessed or otherwise processed by a Customer as a result of access to the site or the Services, the Customer agrees that it shall be the sole data controller of such personal data for the purposes of the UK GDPR and, as such, shall be solely responsible for its processing.
All copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the site and the material available on the site belongs to Stepstone Group UK Limited or its third-party suppliers. Use of the site does not give you any proprietary rights in such materials.
For the purpose of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (the "Regulations"), we operate as a venue only and are not an employment business and do not introduce or supply work-seekers to hirers (or vice versa). This means that we do not:
The Regulations seek to ensure that jobseekers are only proposed by employment agencies for roles for which they are properly qualified and that recruiters are only offered jobseekers who have the appropriate levels of experience, training, qualifications and authorisation for the position to be filled. Since we are only a venue and do not propose or introduce jobseekers to recruiters or vice versa, it is recommended that, if you are a jobseeker you undertake the steps set out in the Regulations to ensure your suitability for the role advertised or, if you are a recruiter, to ensure a jobseeker's suitability for the role.
These could include:
In addition, where professional qualifications are required or where jobseekers are to work with vulnerable persons or children, you should obtain copies of the relevant qualifications or authorisation, obtain at least two references from people who are not relatives of the jobseeker and undertake a criminal records bureau check of the jobseeker. For more details of how to undertake a criminal records bureau check, please click here.
Any searching or screening tools provided by us for use in your assessment of the suitability or otherwise of any particular candidate or advertised vacancy are to assist you in taking these steps but are not intended as a substitute.
Recruiters will need to be aware of the IR35 legislation when posting job adverts, namely that targets candidates including but not limited to independent contractors, freelancers, interim and/or consultant. The recruiter must comply to the rules derived from the IR35 legislation and apply where necessary.
The application of the legislation in question must be done with reasonable care when defining the IR35 of the Jobseeker’s status and in the absence of reasonable care the recruiter will automatically become liable for any omission. The discretion lies with You to be updated with your obligations under the IR35 legislation.
Subject to the clauses above, you must comply and adhere to all applicable laws when using Our Services, including but shall not be limited to the Equality Act 2010 and the Code of Practice on Employment provided by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. You must not use Our Services with the intention to discriminate or place the Jobseekers at a disadvantage when deciding or approaching them to fulfil a job vacancy. You hereby confirm that the content of the job advert and when using the Candidate Database as per clause 15, you will comply with all your obligations hereunder and within the aforementioned Legislation and Code of Practice on Employment. You shall indemnify Us against any claim brought by an individual arising from your breach of this obligation or any other of these Recruiter Terms.
