Terms and conditions
Welcome, and thank you for your interest, Velents Technologies Inc. (“Velents”, “we” or “us”) and our website at velents.com, along with our related websites, networks, applications, and other services provided by us (collectively, our “Service”). These Terms and Conditions are a legally binding contract between you and Velents regarding your use of the services.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING “I ACCEPT”, OR BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING VELENTS PRIVACY POLICY (TOGETHER, THE “TERMS”). If you do not agree to the Terms, then you do not have our permission to use the Services.
These Terms provide that all disputes between you and Velents will be resolved by BINDING ARBITRATION. YOU AGREE TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT to defend your right under this contract, except for matters that may be taken to small claims court. Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury, and your claims cannot be brought as a class action. Please review Section 16 (“Dispute Resolution and Arbitration”) for the details regarding you agreement to arbitrate any disputes with Velents.
2. Definitions
“Account” means “Velents Account”
“User” means any individual or company that uses any of the Velents Services. The term “User” shall cover all Velents User (both customers and candidates).
“Customer” means Employer Companies.
“Candidate” means a user who creates a Candidate Profile for using the Services to search for employment opportunities or to participate in an application for employment with an Employer.
“GPDR” means the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means all intellectual properties such as patents, trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, designs, copyrights, trade secrets, database rights, know-how e.g. (whether registered or unregistered) that are protected under any applicable law, and all applications, renewals, and extensions of the same.
2. Velents Service Overview
Velents Al is a hiring platform that helps scale your hiring easily. With Al screening, skill assessments, and video interviewing software, hire talent quickly and efficiently.
Velents is a data-driven Al-based hiring platform that is a hybrid of an applicant tracking system & assessments software that saves up to 80% of your hiring time. We enable to select candidates based on data and analytics.
We automate the hiring process with advanced assessments tools like:
• Applicant tracking system,
• Al screening assistant,
• Personality assessment,
• Code assessment,
• Automated video interviews,
• Live interviews,
• Recruiting Chatbot.
Valents is intended for two types of users depending on the functionality of the application:
*Candidates
*Companies
Users will have access to the following products:
• Automated Video Interviews
Our Al analyzes Candidates’ answers, matches those answers with their CV and competencies, writes a full report about their performance.
• Live Interviews
With Velents live interviews, Customers can invite whoever they want to join the interview, take notes that can be saved during the meeting and record it to evaluate later.
• Interview Assessments
Our Interview Assessments allow Customers to more easily compare candidates and find the right fit for their company using; automated pre-screening knockout questions, using quick evaluations to evaluate candidates, prioritize their candidates by job relevance.
• Code Assessments
One Candidates complete the technical assessment, Customers will get an easy to use and to understand report with their performance, time taken to solve a problem, skill level, met their pre-set criteria or not.
• Sourcing Assistant
Advertise the job on local and international job boards are free and paid. Customers can promote their jobs on the most relevant job boards with just one click.
• Personality Assessments
Velents is a personality assessment that will evaluate candidates based on their personality, skills, and tendencies.
• Recruiting Chatbot
Candidates will be introduced to our Al recruiter and all their requirements will be answered, conduct interviews, and answer questions or pre-made tests, have follow-up messages and updates about their interviews.
Velents has a variety of video options and tools to use in association with the Services. If you choose to use your webcam and microphone through Services for audio and video, you authorize Velents to allow others to see and hear you through the audio and video obtained through these devices. You also authorize Velents to record and store such information on its servers in your Account.
Customers are prohibited from creating their own recordings of Video Interviews. Velents take reasonable measures to prevent any unauthorized recording of Video Interviews.
Velents is not an employment agency. Velents does not make any representations as to the qualifications of any individual, entity or employer.
Velents does not guarantee that any individual or entity will find employment or an employee through Velents.
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By accepting these Terms, you represent and warrant to us that:
a. You are at least 18 years old;
b. You have not previously been suspended or removed from the Services;
c. Your registration and your use of the Services is compliance with all applicable laws and regulations;
d. You provide true, complete, and up-to-date contact and billing information;
e. You are not individually or as part of a group, entity or state, subject to EU, US and UN sanctions, embargoes, and bans that prohibited the use of this Services.
If you are using the Services on behalf of an entity, organization, organization, or company, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms and you agree to be bound by these Terms on behalf of that organization.
4. Accounts and Registration
To access most features of the Services, you must register for an account. When you register for an account, you may be required to provide us with some information about yourself as a candidates first name, last name, e-mail address, resume; as a customer first name, last name, e-mail address, corporate name, corporate e-mail address, corporate logo. You agree that the information you provide us is accurate and that you will keep it accurate and up-to-date at all times. When you register, you will be asked to provide a password.
We may also use your e-mail address, you agree to our use of e-mail addresses to send you the notices regarding the Services. We may also use your e-mail address to send you other messages, such as changes to Services features and special offers. If you do not wish to receive this e-mail, you can opt-out by sending us your request via the contact information. Please read the Privacy Policy for more information and opt-out options.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, and you accept responsibility for all activities that occur under account. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure, then you must immediately notify us at info@velents.com
4. Payment:
Access to the Services, or to certain features of the Services, may require you to pay fees for both customers and candidates. Before you pay any fees, you will have an opportunity to review and accept the fees that you will be charged. All fees are non-refundable except that Velents decides to give a right for refund.
If Velents changes the fees for Services, including by adding additional fees or charges, Velents will provide you advance notice of those changes. If you do not accept changes, Velents may discontinue providing the Services to you.
The Services may include functionality for activating, updating or cancelling recurring payments for periodic charges. If you activate or update recurring payments through the Services, you authorize Velents to periodically charge, on a going-forward basis and until cancellation of either the recurring payments or your account, all accrued sums on or before the payment due date for the accrued sums.
Customers may subscribe to the Services through Striper payment services on monthly or yearly basis. Velents has right to change payment provider anytime without prior notification. Velents will make reasonable efforts to keep pricing information published on the website up to date. We encourage you to check our website periodically for current pricing information.
5. User Content
A. Customer Content Generally: Certain features of the Services may permit Customers to upload content to the Services, including contact information, company information, messages, reviews, photos, videos, images, folders, data, text, picture, company logo, job description and all the data from their operations. You retain copyright and any other proprietary rights that you may hold in the Customer Content that you share to the Velents.
B. Candidates Content Generally: Certain features of the Services may permit Customers to upload content to the Services, including contact information, personal information, resume, personal qualifications, messages, reviews, photos, videos, images, folders, data, text, picture, and all the other data. You retain copyright and any other proprietary rights that you may hold in the Customer Content that you share to the Velents.
As part of the application process for employment, Customer may ask Candidates to participate in activities which Customer may customize such as live and automated audio/video interviews, personality assessments, and code assessments, on the Platform. Candidates’ participation in these activities will be recorded, processed and analyzed as Candidate Content by Velents, Customer will have access to the relevant Candidate Content for the duration of the Subscription.
C. Limited License Grant to Velents: By posting or publishing Customer/Candidate Content, you grant Velents a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense) to host, store, transfer, display, publicly perform, reproduce, modify for the purpose of formatting for display, and distribute your Customer/Candidate Content, in whole or in part, in any media formats.
D. Limited License Grant to Other Users: By posting or sharing User Content with other Users of the Services, you grant those users a non-exclusive license to access and use that Customer/Candidate Content as permitted by these Terms and the functionality of the Services.
E. User Content Representations and Warranties. You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing User Content. By posting or publishing User Content, you affirm, represent, and warrant that:
i. you are the creator and owner of the User Content, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to authorize Velents and users of the Service to use and distribute your User Content as necessary to exercise the licenses granted by you in this section, in the manner contemplated by Velents, the Service, and these Terms; and
ii. your User Content, and the use of your User Content as contemplated by these Terms, does not and will not: (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person; or (iii) cause Velents to violate any law or regulation.
F. User Content Disclaimer: We are under no obligation to edit or control User Content that you or other users post or publish and will not be in any way responsible or liable for User Content. Velents may, however, at any time and without prior notice, screen, remove, edit, or block any User Content that in our sole judgment violates these Terms or is otherwise objectionable. You understand that when using the Service you will be exposed to User Content from a variety of sources and acknowledge that User Content may be inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable. You agree to waive, and do waive, any legal or equitable right or remedy you have or may have against Velents with respect to User Content. We expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with User Content. If notified by a user or content owner that User Content allegedly does not conform to these Terms, we may investigate the allegation and determine in our sole discretion whether to remove the User Content, which we reserve the right to do at any time and without notice. For clarity, Velents does not permit copyright-infringing activities on the Service.
6. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMCA Notification: We comply with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act applicable to Internet service providers (17 U.S.C. §512, as amended). If you have an intellectual property rights-related complaint about material on the Service, you may contact our Designated Agent at the following address: Any notice alleging that materials hosted by or distributed through the Service infringe intellectual property rights must include the following information:
• Velents Technologies Inc.
Email: info@velents.com
• an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other right being infringed;
• a description of the copyright-protected work or other intellectual property right that you claim has been infringed;
• a description of the material that you claim is infringing and where it is located on the Service;
• your address, telephone number, and email address;
• a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of those materials on the Service is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or
• authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.
Repeat Infringers: Velents will promptly terminate without notice the accounts of users that are determined by Velents to be “Repeat Infringers.” A Repeat Infringer is a user who has been notified of infringing activity or has had User Content removed from the Services at least twice.
7. Prohibited Conduct
BY USING THE SERVICES YOU AGREE NOT TO:
i. use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law;
ii. violate, or encourage others to violate, any right of a third party, including by infringing or misappropriating any third party intellectual property right;
iii. post, upload, or distribute any User Content or other content that is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, inaccurate, or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, profane, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate;
iv. interfere with security-related features of the Service, including by: (a) disabling or circumventing features that prevent or limit use or copying of any content; or (b) reverse engineering or otherwise attempting to discover the source code of any portion of the Service except to the extent that the activity is expressly permitted by applicable law;
v. interfere with the operation of the Service or any user’s enjoyment of the Service, including by: (a) uploading or otherwise disseminating any virus, adware, spyware, worm, or other malicious code; (b) making any unsolicited offer or advertisement to another user of the Service; (c) attempting to collect personal information about another user or third party without consent; or (d) interfering with or disrupting any network, equipment, or server connected to or used to provide the Service, or violating any regulation, policy, or procedure of any such network, equipment, or server;
vi. perform any fraudulent activity including impersonating any person or entity, claiming a false affiliation, accessing any other Service account without permission, or falsifying your age or date of birth;
vii. sell or otherwise transfer the access granted under these Terms or any Materials or any right or ability to view, access, or use any Material;
viii. use any automated means or form of scraping or data extraction to access, modify, download, query or otherwise collect information from Velents’ websites.
8. Third-Party Services and Linked Websites
Velents may provide tools through the Service that enable you to export information, including User Content, to third party services, including through features that allow you to link your account on Velents with an account on the third party service, such as Twitter, Whatsapp, LinkedIn or Facebook, or through our implementation of third party buttons (such as “like” or “share” buttons). By using one of these tools, you agree that we may transfer that information to the applicable third-party service. Third party services are not under our control, and we are not responsible for any third party service’s use of your exported information. The Service may also contain links to third-party websites. Linked websites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for their content.
9. Termination of Use; Discontinuation and Modification of the Service
You may terminate your account at any time by contacting customer service at info@velents.com. If you terminate your account, you remain obligated to pay all outstanding fees, if any, incurred prior to termination relating to your use of the Service. If you violate any provision of these Terms, your permission from us to use the Service will terminate automatically.
In addition, Velents may in its sole discretion terminate your user account on the Service or suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time for any reason or no reason, with or without notice. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Service at any time (including by limiting or discontinuing certain features of the Service), temporarily or permanently, without notice to you. We will have no liability whatsoever on account of any change to the Service or any suspension or termination of your access to or use of the Service.
10. Modification of these Terms
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change these Terms on a going-forward basis at any time. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. If a change to these Terms materially modifies your rights or obligations, you will be required to accept the modified Terms in order to continue to use the Service. Material modifications are effective upon your acceptance of the modified Terms. Immaterial modifications are effective upon publication. Disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved in accordance with the version of these Terms that was in effect at the time the dispute arose.
11. Ownership; Proprietary Rights
The Service is owned and operated by Velents. The visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, information, data, computer code (including source code or object code), products, software, services, and all other elements of the Service (“Materials”) provided by Velents are protected by intellectual property and other laws. All Materials included in the Service are the property of Velents or our third-party licensors. Except as expressly authorized by Velents, you may not make use of the Materials. Velents reserves all rights to the Materials not granted expressly in these Terms.
12.Indemnity
You are responsible for your use of the Service, and you will defend and indemnify Velents and its officers, directors, employees, consultants, affiliates, subsidiaries and agents (together, the “Velents Entities”) from and against every claim, liability, damage, loss, and expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) your access to, use of, or alleged use of, the Service; (b) your violation of any portion of these Terms, any representation, warranty, or agreement referenced in these Terms, or any applicable law or regulation; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property right or publicity, confidentiality, other property, or privacy right; or (d) any dispute or issue between you and any third party. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you (without limiting your indemnification obligations with respect to that matter), and in that case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of that claim.
13. Disclaimers; No Warranties
THE SERVICE AND ALL MATERIALS AND CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ON AN “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE VELENTS ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO THE SERVICE AND ALL MATERIALS AND CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE, INCLUDING: (A) ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT; AND (B) ANY WARRANTY ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE. THE VELENTS ENTITIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE OR ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICE, OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT OFFERED THROUGH THE SERVICE, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR FREE OF ERRORS, VIRUSES, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, AND DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY OF THOSE ISSUES WILL BE CORRECTED.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY REGARDING ANY OF THE VELENTS ENTITIES OR THE SERVICE THAT IS NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY RESULT FROM YOUR USE OF OR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE, YOUR DEALING WITH ANY OTHER SERVICE USER, AND ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU USE THE SERVICE, AND USE, ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN MATERIALS OR CONTENT THROUGH THE SERVICE AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITES OR SERVICES, AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PROPERTY (INCLUDING YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR MOBILE DEVICE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE), OR THE LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF THAT MATERIAL OR CONTENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY PROHIBIT A DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.
14. Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL THE VELENTS ENTITIES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF, OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE, THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT ON THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ANY VELENTS ENTITY HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE.
THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE VELENTS ENTITIES TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF OR ANY INABILITY TO USE ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICE OR OTHERWISE UNDER THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF: (A) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO VELENTS FOR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT(S) OR CIRCUMSTANCES GIVING RISE TO CLAIM; OR (B) $100.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
EACH PROVISION OF THESE TERMS THAT PROVIDES FOR A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, OR EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES IS INTENDED TO AND DOES ALLOCATE THE RISKS BETWEEN THE PARTIES UNDER THESE TERMS. THIS ALLOCATION IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES. EACH OF THESE PROVISIONS IS SEVERABLE AND INDEPENDENT OF ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS.
15.Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States without regard to conflict of law principles. If a lawsuit or court proceeding is permitted under these Terms, then you and Velents agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the state courts and federal courts located within Delaware, USA for the purpose of litigating any dispute. We operate the Service from our offices in Delaware, and we make no representation that Materials included in the Service are appropriate or available for use in other locations.
16. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
In the interest of resolving disputes between you and Velents in the most expedient and cost effective manner, you and Velents agree that every dispute arising in connection with these Terms will be resolved by binding arbitration. Arbitration is less formal than a lawsuit in court. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, may allow for more limited discovery than in court, and can be subject to very limited review by courts. Arbitrators can award the same damages and relief that a court can award. This agreement to arbitrate disputes includes all claims arising out of or relating to any aspect of these Terms, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether a claim arises during or after the termination of these Terms. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND VELENTS ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
YOU AND VELENTS AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, unless both you and Velents agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.
17.Consent to Electronic Communications
By using the Service, you consent to receiving certain electronic communications from us as further described in our Privacy Policy. Please read our Privacy Policy to learn more about our electronic communications practices. You agree that any notices, agreements, disclosures, or other communications that we send to you electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including that those communications be in writing.
18.Contact Information
The Service is offered by Velents Technologies Inc. addressed at 651 N Broad St, Middletown, DE19709, USA You may contact us by sending correspondence to that by emailing us at info@velents.com
