Terms and Conditions for Trendi Vacancy Portal Registration and Job Applications
1. Acceptance of Terms
By registering on this platform, creating a candidate profile, submitting an application, uploading documents, or otherwise using this vacancy dashboard ("Platform"), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
If you do not agree with these Terms, you should not register or submit an application.
2. Purpose of the Platform
This Platform is intended to:
- Allow candidates to search and apply for employment opportunities.
- Enable employers and authorised recruiters to manage recruitment processes.
- Maintain a candidate database for current and future employment opportunities.
- Facilitate communication regarding vacancies and recruitment activities.
Registration on the Platform does not guarantee employment, interviews, assessments, or placement.
3. Candidate Eligibility
By registering, you confirm that:
- You are at least 18 years of age or legally entitled to seek employment.
- All information provided by you is accurate, complete, and truthful.
- You will promptly update your profile if any information changes.
- You are legally authorised to work in the jurisdictions for which you apply.
Providing false, misleading, incomplete, or fraudulent information may result in immediate disqualification from recruitment processes and removal from the Platform.
4. Candidate Responsibilities
You agree to:
- Maintain the confidentiality of your login credentials.
- Use the Platform only for lawful purposes.
- Upload only information relevant to recruitment and employment.
- Refrain from impersonating another person or entity.
- Ensure that all documents submitted belong to you or that you have permission to submit them.
You remain solely responsible for all content uploaded to your profile.
5. Collection and Processing of Personal Information
The Platform collects personal information necessary for recruitment and talent management purposes, including but not limited to:
- Name and surname
- Contact details
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Qualifications and certifications
- Employment history
- Assessment results
- Identity or work permit information
- Employment Equity information (where applicable and legally permitted)
Your information will be processed in accordance with:
- The Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 ("POPIA")
- Applicable labour and employment legislation
- Relevant data protection laws in the jurisdictions where recruitment activities occur
6. Consent to Processing
By creating an account or submitting an application, you expressly consent to:
- The collection, storage, verification, processing, and use of your personal information for recruitment purposes.
- The sharing of your information with authorised employees, hiring managers, recruiters, assessment providers, and service providers involved in the recruitment process.
- Communication via email, telephone, SMS, WhatsApp, or other electronic channels regarding employment opportunities.
You may withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal and operational requirements.
7. Background Checks and Verification
Where relevant and legally permissible, the employer may conduct:
- Qualification verification
- Employment reference checks
- Criminal record screening
- Credit checks (where required for a role)
- Identity verification
- Professional registration verification
Such checks will only be conducted in accordance with applicable legislation and any required additional consent.
8. Data Retention
Your profile and application information may be retained:
- For the duration of the recruitment process.
- For future employment opportunities.
- For legal, regulatory, audit, reporting, and compliance purposes.
Unless otherwise required by law, candidate information may be retained for a period of up to 24 months following the last recorded activity on the Platform.
Thereafter, information may be archived, anonymised, or deleted in accordance with applicable policies.
9. Talent Community and Future Opportunities
By registering, you agree that:
- Your profile may be considered for future vacancies that match your qualifications, skills, experience, or preferences.
- Being included in the talent database does not create any obligation on the employer to consider, interview, or employ you.
You may request removal from the talent database at any time.
10. Employment Equity Information
Where Employment Equity information is requested, such information:
- Is voluntary unless required by law.
- Will be used solely for legislative reporting and diversity monitoring purposes.
- Will not be used unlawfully in recruitment decisions.
Processing of such information will comply with the Employment Equity Act and POPIA.
11. Intellectual Property
The Platform, including its content, branding, software, design, and functionality, remains the property of the Platform owner or its licensors.
Users may not:
- Copy or reproduce Platform content.
- Reverse engineer the Platform.
- Use automated bots, scraping tools, or data-mining software without authorisation.
12. Availability of the Platform
The Platform owner:
- Does not guarantee uninterrupted availability.
- May suspend, modify, update, or discontinue any part of the Platform at any time.
- Is not liable for technical failures, transmission delays, or temporary unavailability.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law:
- The Platform owner is not liable for any loss resulting from the use of the Platform.
- The Platform owner makes no representation that any candidate will be offered employment.
- Users access and use the Platform at their own risk.
14. User-Generated Content
You retain ownership of information you upload.
By uploading content, you grant the Platform owner a non-exclusive right to:
- Store the information.
- Process the information for recruitment purposes.
- Share the information with authorised recruitment stakeholders.
You warrant that uploaded content does not infringe any third-party rights.
15. Security
Reasonable technical and organisational safeguards will be implemented to protect personal information.
However, no electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users acknowledge and accept this inherent risk.
16. Candidate Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may:
- Request access to your personal information.
- Correct inaccurate information.
- Update your profile at any time.
- Request deletion of your profile where legally permissible.
- Withdraw consent to future processing activities.
Requests may be submitted to the designated Information Officer or Privacy Officer.
17. Termination of Registration
The Platform owner may suspend or terminate a user account if:
- False information is provided.
- Unlawful activity is suspected.
- These Terms and Conditions are breached.
- Continued access presents operational, legal, or security risks.
18. Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa.
Any disputes shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the South African courts.
19. Contact Information
Questions relating to these Terms and Conditions, privacy practices, or the processing of personal information may be directed to: