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Our website rules

An Easy Read guide

How to use this guide

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This is an easy-to-read version of our Terms of Use.

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Our Terms of Use is a legal document that explains the rules everyone must follow when they use our website.

In this guide we say our website rules.

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Hireup wrote this guide. When you see the words ‘we’ or ‘us’, it means Hireup.  

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You can ask for help to read this guide. 

A friend, family member or support person may be able to help you.

What is this guide about?

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We have rules everyone must follow when they use our website.

This includes:

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  • you
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  • us.
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When you agree to our website rules, you agree to follow them when you use our website.

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When you give your consent, you say it is ok for someone to do something.

You are giving us your consent to:

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  • collect and store information about you
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  • share your information if we need to.
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You can read our Privacy policy for more information.

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You can find an Easy Read version of our Privacy policy on our website.

Using our website

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You must be aged 18 years or older to:

  • use our website
  • sign our agreement.
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If you are aged 17 years or younger, you will need a parent or guardian to sign our agreement for you.

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You don’t need to pay to use our website.

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You need a Hireup user account to look at parts of our website.

To get a Hireup user account, you must:

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  • fill out a form
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  • agree to follow our website rules.

When you use our website, you must:

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  • be honest and fair
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  • give us information about you that is true
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  • treat everyone with respect.

Your safety

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Your safety is important to us.

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You must keep your Hireup user account information safe.

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You should only share this information with someone who helps you look after your account.

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You must tell us straight away if you think your Hireup user account is not safe.

What you must do

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The law in New South Wales (NSW) controls our website rules.

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You must follow the law in NSW when you use our website.

How we protect our website

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We own everything on our website.

When you use our website, you can’t:

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  • take any information off the webpages
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  • copy any information
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  • share any information with other people.
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If something goes wrong when you use our website, it is not our fault.

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We can change our website rules at any time.

If we change 1 or more of our website rules:

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  • they will change straight away
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  • we will share the new information on our website.
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When we change something, we will tell you on our website.

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We will only send you an email if we make any changes to our business.

For example, if we change how we run our business.

We might stop you from using our website if:

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  • another person tries to get into our website without our consent
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  • you don’t follow our website rules
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  • you try to change our website without our consent.

We also might do this if you use our website to:

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  • store information that you shouldn’t 
  • upset someone with the information
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  • lie to someone about the information.
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If we need to stop you from using our website, we don’t have to:

  • tell you before it happens
  • give you a reason.

What information do we collect?

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  • when you use our website
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  • what pages you look at.
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Sometimes links on our website take you to a website we don’t own.

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We don’t control what information is on those websites.

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To use our website, you must be ok with leaving our website to go to other websites.