Recruiter Terms

These Recruiter Terms apply to recruiters, employers, companies, hiring managers, talent acquisition teams, search firms, staffing firms, consultants, partners, and other approved hiring users who access or use Korum, a platform operated by Worldhire Global Ltd.

These Recruiter Terms should be read together with our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Candidate Consent Policy, Recruiter Code of Conduct, Confidentiality & Consent Policy, Cookie Policy, Payments & Billing Policy, and any separate agreement, order form, subscription plan, or commercial terms agreed with Worldhire Global Ltd.

For the purpose of these Recruiter Terms, “Worldhire”, “we”, “us”, or “our” means Worldhire Global Ltd. “Korum” means the confidential career and hiring platform operated by Worldhire. “Recruiter”, “employer”, “company”, “hiring user”, “you”, or “your” means any person or organisation using Korum to discover, contact, assess, shortlist, engage, or hire professionals.

1. About Worldhire Global Ltd

Korum is operated by:

• Worldhire Global Ltd
• Registered in England and Wales
• Company Number: 17306978
• Registered Office: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
• Email: connect@worldhire.com

2. Purpose of These Recruiter Terms

These Recruiter Terms explain:

• Who may access Korum as a recruiter or hiring user
• How recruiter access is approved
• What recruiters may and may not do
• How Discoverable Mode works
• How Confidential Mode works
• How the in-app connection workflow may be used
• How candidate data must be handled
• What happens if recruiter access is misused
• How disputes, consent-led access breaches, confidentiality issues, and hiring outcomes are handled
• Korum is designed to protect experienced professionals while helping trusted recruiters and companies access relevant talent.

3. Recruiter Access Is Controlled

Recruiter, employer, company, and hiring partner access to Korum is not automatic.

Worldhire may review and approve access based on:

• Recruiter identity
• Work email address
• Company details
• Hiring purpose
• Role relevance
• Previous platform behaviour
• Payment or subscription status
• Risk, security, or compliance checks
• Any other factor Worldhire considers relevant
• Worldhire may approve, reject, limit, suspend, or terminate recruiter access at its discretion.
• Approval to access Korum does not create any right to continued access.

4. Authorised Use

You may use Korum only for legitimate hiring, recruitment, executive search, talent discovery, workforce planning, or approved business purposes.

You may use Korum to:

• Search for relevant professionals
• View professional profiles according to visibility settings
• Use reach-out / connection where permitted
• Request access to Confidential profiles
• Shortlist professionals for relevant roles
• Communicate with professionals through approved workflows
• Share genuine role or opportunity information
• Manage hiring workflows
• Engage with candidates in a lawful and professional manner
• You must not use Korum for unrelated marketing, database building, scraping, resale, spam, surveillance, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.

5. Discoverable Mode Profiles

Discoverable Mode is for professionals who want their profile to be discoverable by verified recruiters, employers, companies, and approved hiring partners on Korum.

In Discoverable Mode, the professional’s profile information may be visible to approved hiring users inside Korum.

This may include:

• Name
• Professional summary
• Work experience
• Current and previous roles
• Current and previous employers
• Education
• Skills
• Industry
• Function
• Location
• Notice period
• Salary or compensation range where provided
• Expected compensation range where provided
• CV/resume where uploaded or enabled
• Career preferences
• Availability status
• Other professional profile details submitted by the professional
• Direct contact details, such as phone number and email address, are hidden by default.
• You may message a Discoverable professional through Korum’s in-app connection workflow at no credit cost; messaging does not by itself disclose contact details.
• You may access direct contact details (email address and phone number) only through Korum’s paid contact-reveal feature where permitted. Contact reveal involves a one-time credit charge; once used, that access remains available to you. Contact reveal is not available where the professional has enabled do-not-contact, and is never available for Confidential Mode profiles.
• Discoverable Mode does not mean that candidate data is public, unrestricted, downloadable, reusable, or available for resale. Discoverable Mode only means that the professional profile is visible within controlled Korum workflows to approved hiring users.

6. reach-out / connection Function

The in-app connection workflow allows approved hiring users to access certain information that is hidden by default.

In Discoverable Mode, messaging through reach-out / connection is free of credits, and access to direct contact details such as phone number or email address is available only through Korum’s paid contact-reveal feature (a one-time credit charge; not available where the professional has enabled do-not-contact, and never available for Confidential Mode profiles).

By using reach-out / connection, you agree that:

• You have a genuine hiring purpose
• You will use the information obtained only for the relevant hiring opportunity
• You will not misuse, resell, export, or share the information with unauthorised parties
• You will not contact the professional for unrelated marketing
• You will not contact the professional’s current employer
• You will respect platform rules, confidentiality requirements, and applicable laws
• Your reach-out / connection activity may be logged and reviewed
• Worldhire may monitor, restrict, suspend, or terminate reach-out / connection access if misuse is suspected.

7. Confidential Profiles

Confidential Mode is for professionals who are not publicly applying, are selectively open to opportunities, or require stronger confidentiality before deeper disclosure.

In Confidential Mode, a professional’s profile may be masked, limited, or partially visible.

Information such as identity, current employer, direct contact details, CV/resume, salary information, and other sensitive details may remain hidden unless the professional approves access or completes a consent-led connection workflow.

You must not attempt to identify, contact, approach, trace, or bypass the privacy controls of a Confidential professional.

You may be required to submit an access request, provide role details, complete consent-led access terms, or follow additional steps before deeper information is shared.

8. Access Requests

Where access approval is required, you must provide accurate and genuine information.

An access request may include:

• Your name
• Company name
• Role title
• Role description
• Hiring location
• Work model
• Salary or compensation range
• Reason for access
• Employer or client identity
• Confidentiality requirement
• Consent-led access requirement, if applicable
• You must not submit misleading, incomplete, fake, speculative, or deceptive access requests.
• The professional may approve, reject, pause, or request more information before deciding.
• Worldhire does not guarantee that any access request will be approved.

9. Consent-Led Access

Korum may support consent-led access workflows where additional confidentiality is required.

Consent-led access may be required where:

• The professional is in Confidential Mode
• The role is confidential
• The professional requests stronger protection
• The employer or recruiter requires confidentiality
• Worldhire determines that additional confidentiality may be appropriate
• Unless Worldhire Global Ltd is expressly named as a party to a specific consent-led access agreement, Worldhire acts only as a platform facilitator and is not responsible for enforcing the consent-led access agreement between users.
• If you breach a consent-led access agreement, confidentiality obligation, consent condition, or platform access rule, you are responsible for your own breach and any resulting claims, losses, liabilities, damages, or consequences.
• Worldhire may restrict, suspend, or terminate your access where consent-led access or confidentiality misuse is reported or suspected.

10. Candidate Data Use Restrictions

Candidate and professional information accessed through Korum may be used only for legitimate hiring purposes connected to the relevant opportunity, mandate, role, or approved search.

You must not:

• Use candidate data for unrelated marketing
• Add candidate data to external databases without lawful basis and permission
• Sell, resell, license, syndicate, or commercially exploit candidate data
• Share candidate data with unauthorised colleagues, clients, vendors, partners, or third parties
• Use candidate data to build another talent platform, resume database, AI model, or competing service
• Contact a candidate’s current employer
• Use candidate data for spam, harassment, discrimination, surveillance, or unlawful profiling
• Circumvent visibility, consent, reach-out, consent-led access, or access controls
• Store candidate data for longer than necessary
• Use candidate data after your legitimate hiring purpose has ended, unless you have a lawful basis and applicable consent or permission

11. No Scraping, Copying, or Automated Extraction

You must not scrape, crawl, harvest, extract, download, copy, replicate, or bulk export platform data.

This includes:

• Candidate profiles
• Search results
• CVs/resumes
• Contact details
• Salary ranges
• Employer data
• Platform workflows
• reach-out / connection data
• Access logs
• Matching results
• Any other Korum data
• You must not use bots, scripts, crawlers, browser automation, extensions, scraping tools, AI agents, or other automated systems to extract or copy platform data without written permission from Worldhire.
• Violation may result in immediate account termination and legal action.

12. Contacting Professionals

You may contact professionals only for genuine hiring-related purposes.

When contacting a professional, you must:

• Be clear about your identity
• Be clear about the company or client you represent
• Provide genuine role or opportunity information
• Avoid misleading salary, location, seniority, or hiring authority claims
• Respect the professional’s preferences
• Stop contacting the professional if they request no further contact
• Follow applicable privacy, employment, anti-spam, and communication laws
• You must not contact a professional’s current employer or colleagues without the professional’s explicit consent.

13. Accuracy of Role and Company Information

You are responsible for ensuring that all information you provide is accurate and lawful.

This includes:

• Role title
• Job description
• Employer or client identity
• Salary or compensation range
• Location
• Work model
• Hiring authority
• Visa or work authorisation requirements
• Confidentiality requirements
• Interview process
• Employment type
• Contract type
• Timeline
• Commercial terms, where applicable
• Misleading role or company information may result in account restriction, suspension, or termination.

14. Fair Hiring and Non-Discrimination

You are responsible for complying with all applicable employment, labour, equality, anti-discrimination, immigration, and hiring laws.

You must not use Korum to discriminate unlawfully based on protected characteristics or other legally prohibited grounds.

You must not request or use candidate information for unlawful, discriminatory, exploitative, or unethical hiring purposes.

Worldhire may restrict or terminate access if it believes Korum is being used for discriminatory, unethical, misleading, or unlawful hiring practices.

15. Confidentiality Obligations

You may receive confidential information through Korum, including:

• Candidate information
• Professional profile data
• Contact details
• CV/resume details
• Salary or compensation information
• Current employer details
• Hiring mandates
• Client or employer information
• Consent-protected information
• Platform workflows
• Search or matching outputs
• Commercial terms
• You must protect confidential information and use it only for the purpose for which it was shared.
• You must not disclose confidential information to unauthorised persons.
• Confidentiality obligations continue after your account is closed, suspended, or terminated.

16. Data Protection Responsibilities

Once candidate information is lawfully shared with you through Korum, you may become an independent controller for how you use that information in your own recruitment or hiring process.

You are responsible for:

• Using candidate data lawfully
• Keeping candidate data secure
• Limiting access internally
• Deleting data when no longer needed
• Respecting candidate rights where applicable
• Maintaining your own privacy notices where required
• Complying with applicable data protection laws
• Notifying Worldhire of any suspected misuse, breach, or unauthorised disclosure involving Korum data
• You must not process candidate data in a way that conflicts with Korum’s Terms, policies, consent workflows, or confidentiality requirements.

17. Use of CVs and Documents

CVs, resumes, and candidate documents accessed through Korum may be used only for legitimate hiring purposes.

You must not:

• Forward CVs to unauthorised parties
• Upload CVs into unrelated systems without lawful basis
• Use CVs for training AI models or external databases
• Share CVs with a client without authority and lawful basis
• Retain CVs indefinitely
• Use CVs for spam, resale, or unrelated business development
• Where a CV or document is accessed under consent-led or confidential workflow, you must follow all related confidentiality restrictions.

18. Fees, Subscriptions, and Payments

Your use of Korum may be subject to fees, subscription charges, access fees, success fees, usage charges, setup fees, verification fees, or other commercial terms.

Payment terms may be set out in:

• Order forms
• Invoices
• Subscription pages
• Payment pages
• Client agreements
• Recruiter agreements
• Commercial proposals
• Separate billing policies
• Unless expressly stated otherwise, fees may be non-refundable once service access has been provided or work has started.
• Failure to pay may result in suspension or termination of access.

19. No Circumvention

You must not use Korum to identify candidates and then bypass the platform, payment terms, consent workflows, consent-led access workflows, or commercial obligations.

You must not attempt to avoid applicable fees, success fees, subscription fees, recruiter terms, client terms, or agreed commercial arrangements.

Where a candidate, employer, recruiter, or client relationship is introduced, accessed, or materially enabled through Korum or Worldhire, applicable commercial terms may continue to apply according to the relevant agreement.

20. No Guarantee of Candidate Availability or Hiring Outcome

Worldhire does not guarantee:

• Candidate availability
• Candidate interest
• Candidate suitability
• Candidate response
• Interview acceptance
• Offer acceptance
• Candidate joining
• Candidate retention
• Background verification outcome
• Salary acceptance
• Hiring success
• Accuracy of all user-provided information
• You are responsible for your own hiring decisions, due diligence, employment checks, contracts, offer letters, compliance, and candidate communications.

21. Background Checks and Employment Verification

Unless expressly agreed in writing, Worldhire is not responsible for conducting background checks, reference checks, identity checks, employment verification, education verification, criminal checks, immigration checks, work authorisation checks, or right-to-work checks.

Recruiters, employers, and companies are responsible for their own verification processes and legal compliance before making hiring decisions.

22. User Disputes

Worldhire is not responsible for resolving disputes between:

• Recruiters and professionals
• Employers and professionals
• Recruiters and employers
• Clients and partners
• Any other users or third parties

This includes disputes relating to:

• Offers
• Employment contracts
• Salary negotiations
• Joining dates
• Candidate withdrawal
• Employer withdrawal
• Non-payment
• Fees or commissions
• Incentives
• Consent-led access breach
• Confidentiality breach
• Misrepresentation
• Hiring outcomes
• Workplace disputes after hiring
• Worldhire may review complaints and take platform action at its discretion, but Worldhire is not required to mediate, arbitrate, settle, enforce, or resolve disputes between users.

23. Platform Enforcement Rights

Worldhire may investigate reported or suspected misuse.

Worldhire may take action including:

• Warning the user
• Restricting access
• Suspending or terminating accounts
• Blocking reach-out / connection access
• Removing content
• Preserving audit logs
• Notifying affected users
• Cooperating with lawful requests
• Taking legal or commercial action where appropriate
• Worldhire’s decision to take or not take action does not make Worldhire responsible for the underlying conduct, dispute, breach, or loss caused by a user.

24. Suspension and Termination

Worldhire may restrict, suspend, or terminate your access if:

• You breach these Recruiter Terms
• You breach the Terms of Use or related policies
• You misuse candidate data
• You bypass reach-out / connection, consent, access, or consent-led access controls
• You contact a professional’s current employer
• You scrape, copy, export, or misuse platform data
• You misrepresent roles, company identity, salary, or hiring authority
• You fail to pay applicable fees
• You create legal, security, confidentiality, operational, or reputational risk
• Worldhire is required to do so by law
• Termination does not affect confidentiality obligations, payment obligations, data protection obligations, indemnities, or liabilities that arose before termination.

25. Audit Logs and Monitoring

Korum may log recruiter activity for audit, security, compliance, misuse prevention, and platform accountability.

This may include:

• Login activity
• Search activity
• Profile views
• reach-out / connection actions
• Access requests
• Shortlists
• Messages
• Download activity, where applicable
• Consent-led access workflow activity
• Account changes
• Security events
• Misuse reports
• Worldhire may review logs where misuse, security concerns, confidentiality breach, dispute, or policy violation is suspected.

26. Intellectual Property and Platform Restrictions

All intellectual property in Korum, including software, workflows, interface, database structure, platform logic, designs, content, branding, and technology, belongs to Worldhire Global Ltd or its licensors.

You must not copy, reproduce, modify, reverse engineer, resell, exploit, frame, mirror, scrape, or create derivative works from Korum without written permission.

You must not use Korum data, workflows, or outputs to build or improve a competing product, talent platform, recruitment database, AI model, or commercial service.

27. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Worldhire Global Ltd will not be liable for:

• Candidate decisions, withdrawals, non-joining, or misrepresentations
• Employer or recruiter decisions, delays, withdrawals, or misrepresentations
• Hiring outcomes
• Failed offers
• Failed interviews
• Employment disputes
• Fee, commission, salary, or incentive disputes between users
• Consent-led access or confidentiality breaches by users
• Data misuse by recruiters, employers, companies, partners, or other third parties
• Loss caused by third-party services
• Indirect loss
• Consequential loss
• Loss of profit
• Loss of revenue
• Loss of business opportunity
• Loss of goodwill
• Loss of anticipated savings
• Nothing in these Recruiter Terms excludes liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability that cannot be excluded by law.

28. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Worldhire Global Ltd against claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from:

• Your breach of these Recruiter Terms
• Your breach of the Terms of Use or related policies
• Your misuse of Korum
• Your misuse of candidate data
• Your unlawful conduct
• Your unauthorised disclosure of confidential information
• Your breach of a consent-led access agreement, consent, reach-out / connection, or access restrictions
• Your misrepresentation of role, company, salary, or hiring authority
• Your communications, negotiations, employment decisions, or commercial arrangements with another user
• Claims made by candidates, employers, clients, partners, or third parties due to your conduct

29. Changes to These Recruiter Terms

Worldhire may update these Recruiter Terms from time to time.

The updated version will be effective from the date shown at the top of this page.

If changes are material, Worldhire may notify users through the website, email, account notice, or another appropriate method.

Continued use of Korum after changes means you accept the updated Recruiter Terms.

30. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Recruiter Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

The courts of England and Wales will have jurisdiction over disputes, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

31. Contact

For questions about these Recruiter Terms, contact:

• Worldhire Global Ltd
• Registered Office: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
• Email: connect@worldhire.com

For privacy matters:

• privacy@worldhire.com

For support:

• support@worldhire.com