Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the websites, platforms, products, services, dashboards, tools, and digital properties operated by Worldhire Global Ltd, including Korum, Select, and Sphere.

By accessing or using our website, platform, or services, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, you should not use the platform or services.

1. About Worldhire Global Ltd

Worldhire Global Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales.

• Company Name: Worldhire Global Ltd
• Company Number: 17306978

Registered Office: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom

Jurisdiction: England and Wales

Korum, Select, and Sphere are operated by Worldhire Global Ltd.

For general enquiries, contact: connect@worldhire.com

2. Our Platforms and Services

Worldhire operates recruitment, talent, technology, and business services platforms.

Korum is a confidential career and hiring platform for experienced professionals, recruiters, employers, companies, and hiring partners. It supports Discoverable and Confidential hiring workflows.

Select supports specialist recruitment, executive search, consulting, and talent advisory services.

Sphere supports broader talent, workforce, business, and platform-led services.

Some services may be subject to separate agreements, order forms, client contracts, subscription terms, candidate terms, recruiter terms, consent-led access terms, payment terms, or service-specific policies. If there is a conflict between these Terms and a signed commercial agreement, the signed commercial agreement will apply to the extent of that conflict.

3. Eligibility

You may use the platform only if you are legally able to enter into a binding agreement.

Korum is intended for:

• Professionals with 7+ years of experience
• Recruiters
• Employers
• Companies
• Hiring managers
• Talent partners
• Approved business partners
• Worldhire may refuse, restrict, suspend, or terminate access where it believes that a user does not meet platform standards, has provided false or misleading information, has misused the platform, or may create legal, operational, security, reputational, or confidentiality risk.

4. Account Registration and Security

To access certain features, you may need to create an account.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate, complete, and current information
• Use your own identity and authorised business details
• Keep login credentials confidential
• Not share account access with unauthorised users
• Keep your email and contact details updated
• Notify us immediately of suspected unauthorised access
• Accept responsibility for activity under your account
• Worldhire may require additional verification before approving recruiter, employer, company, candidate, or partner access.

5. Candidate and Professional Profiles

Professionals may create profiles to be discovered for relevant opportunities.

Korum supports two profile visibility modes.

Discoverable Mode

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 verified or approved recruiters and hiring users. This may include name, professional summary, 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, and other profile information submitted by the professional.

Direct contact details, such as phone number and email address, are hidden by default.

A verified or approved recruiter may message the professional through Korum’s in-app connection workflow at no credit cost. A verified or approved recruiter may also access direct contact details (email address and phone number) by using Korum’s paid contact-reveal feature, which involves a one-time credit charge; once used, that access remains available to that recruiter. Contact reveal is not available where the professional has enabled do-not-contact, and is never available for Confidential Mode profiles. By selecting Discoverable Mode, the professional gives consent for verified or approved recruiters to view the professional profile and to access direct contact details through this controlled contact-reveal workflow.

reach-out / connection activity may be logged by Korum for audit, security, misuse prevention, platform accountability, and dispute review.

Discoverable Mode does not mean that the profile is publicly available on the open internet. It means the profile is visible within controlled Korum workflows to verified or approved recruiters, employers, companies, and hiring partners.

Confidential Mode

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, the professional’s profile may be masked, limited, or partially visible. Identity, direct contact details, current employer, CV/resume, and other sensitive information may remain hidden unless the professional approves access or completes a consent-led connection workflow.

Recruiters may need to request access. The professional may approve, reject, pause, or require consent-led access before deeper disclosure.

Professionals are responsible for choosing the correct visibility mode and keeping profile information accurate, lawful, and up to date.

6. Recruiter, Employer, and Company Access

Recruiters, employers, companies, and hiring partners may use the platform only for legitimate hiring, talent discovery, recruitment, workforce, or approved business purposes.

Recruiters and employers must not:

• Attempt to bypass platform controls or identify Confidential professionals without approval
• Contact professionals outside permitted workflows
• Contact a professional’s current employer
• Scrape, copy, export, download, or store platform data without permission
• Share candidate information with unauthorised parties
• Misrepresent role details, employer identity, salary, location, hiring authority, or opportunity status
• Use the platform for spam, harassment, discrimination, resale, or unrelated marketing
• Circumvent consent, confidentiality, consent-led access, reach-out / connection, or access controls
• Use candidate data for any unlawful or unauthorised purpose
• Violation may result in immediate restriction, suspension, or termination of access.

7. Confidentiality and Consent-Led Access

Korum is built around controlled visibility, consent-led access, and confidential hiring workflows.

In Discoverable Mode, the professional consents to profile visibility within Korum’s approved recruiter and hiring network. Direct contact details remain hidden by default; verified or approved recruiters may message the professional through Korum’s in-app connection workflow at no credit cost, and may access direct contact details only through Korum’s paid contact-reveal feature, where permitted.

In Confidential Mode, the professional’s identity and sensitive details may remain masked or limited unless the professional approves access or completes a consent-led connection workflow.

Korum may log profile views, reach-out / connection actions, access requests, approvals, rejections, and consent-led access events for audit, security, misuse prevention, dispute review, and platform accountability.

Consent-led access may be required where:

• A professional is in Confidential Mode
• A role is confidential
• The professional requests stronger protection
• The recruiter, employer, or company requires confidentiality
• The platform determines that additional confidentiality is appropriate
• Consent-led access does not guarantee interview selection, employment, offer, exclusivity, or hiring outcome.

8. Consent-Led Access Breach and Confidentiality Disputes

Korum may support consent-led access workflows for confidential hiring, candidate connection, role discussion, and sensitive opportunity conversations.

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 a professional, recruiter, employer, company, partner, or other user breaches a consent-led access agreement, confidentiality obligation, consent condition, or platform access rule, that user is responsible for its own breach and any resulting claims, losses, liabilities, or consequences.

Worldhire may take platform action where misuse or breach is reported or suspected. This may include warning a user, restricting access, suspending accounts, terminating accounts, preserving audit logs, or cooperating with lawful requests.

However, Worldhire is not liable for a user’s breach of a consent-led access agreement, confidentiality, hiring obligation, or professional conduct, except where liability arises directly from Worldhire’s own unlawful act, negligence, fraud, wilful misconduct, or obligations that cannot be excluded by law.

9. User Disputes

Worldhire provides the platform, technology, workflows, and related services that allow professionals, recruiters, employers, companies, and partners to connect.

Worldhire is not responsible for resolving disputes between users, including disputes between:

• A professional and a recruiter
• A professional and an employer or company
• A recruiter and an employer or company
• A client and a partner
• Any two or more third-party users of the platform
• Users are responsible for their own communications, decisions, negotiations, agreements, offers, employment contracts, commercial arrangements, and conduct.
• Worldhire may, at its discretion, review complaints, restrict access, suspend accounts, remove content, or assist with platform-related issues. However, Worldhire is not required to mediate, arbitrate, settle, enforce, or resolve disputes between users.
• Worldhire’s decision to take or not take action does not make Worldhire responsible for the underlying dispute between users.

10. No Employment, Agency, or Hiring Responsibility

Worldhire is not the employer of any professional listed on the platform.

Worldhire is not responsible for:

• Employment contracts
• Offer letters
• Salary negotiations
• Joining dates
• Notice periods
• Background checks
• Reference checks
• Employment eligibility
• Work permits or visas
• Interview outcomes
• Hiring outcomes
• Candidate joining or non-joining
• Employer withdrawal
• Recruiter conduct
• Workplace conduct after hiring
• Recruiters, employers, and companies remain responsible for their own hiring decisions, employment checks, legal compliance, workplace obligations, and candidate communications.
• Professionals remain responsible for evaluating opportunities, employers, contracts, compensation, confidentiality obligations, and career decisions before proceeding.

11. User Content

Users may submit profiles, resumes, job descriptions, company information, hiring mandates, documents, messages, requests, and other content.

You confirm that:

• You have the right to submit the content
• The content is accurate to the best of your knowledge
• The content does not infringe third-party rights
• The content is not unlawful, misleading, discriminatory, abusive, malicious, or fraudulent
• You will update or correct information when required
• You grant Worldhire permission to use submitted content as necessary to operate the platform, provide services, support hiring workflows, improve functionality, maintain security, enforce terms, and comply with law.

12. Prohibited Use

You must not use the platform to:

• Break any law or regulation
• Upload false, misleading, or fraudulent information
• Impersonate another person, recruiter, employer, company, or organisation
• Harass, threaten, abuse, or exploit any user
• Discriminate unlawfully
• Upload malware, viruses, or harmful code
• Interfere with platform security or performance
• Access data without authorisation
• Reverse engineer, scrape, crawl, copy, or harvest platform data
• Build a competing database using platform data
• Bypass payment, consent, access, confidentiality, reach-out / connection, or consent-led access controls
• Use the platform for unsolicited marketing, spam, or resale of candidate data

13. Fair Hiring and Non-Discrimination

Recruiters, employers, and companies are responsible for complying with applicable employment, labour, equality, anti-discrimination, immigration, and hiring laws.

The platform must not be used to discriminate unlawfully based on protected characteristics or other legally prohibited grounds.

Worldhire may restrict or terminate access if we believe the platform is being used for discriminatory, unethical, misleading, or unlawful hiring practices.

14. No Hiring or Employment Guarantee

Worldhire does not guarantee:

• Job offers
• Interviews
• Candidate availability
• Candidate suitability
• Employer suitability
• Recruiter response
• Hiring success
• Candidate acceptance
• Background verification outcomes
• Salary negotiation outcomes
• Accuracy of all third-party information
• Recruiters and employers remain responsible for their own hiring decisions.
• Candidates remain responsible for evaluating opportunities, employers, contracts, compensation, and career decisions before proceeding.

15. Verification and Platform Review

Worldhire may review, verify, approve, reject, restrict, or remove profiles, recruiter accounts, employer accounts, company accounts, job mandates, and submitted content.

Verification may include review of:

• Work email
• Company details
• Recruiter identity
• Candidate profile information
• Role mandate details
• Platform activity
• Misuse reports
• Access request behaviour
• reach-out / connection activity
• Worldhire is not required to approve any user or maintain access indefinitely.

16. Payments, Billing, and Taxes

Some services may be paid, subscription-based, usage-based, project-based, success-based, or governed by separate commercial terms.

Payment terms may be set out in:

• Order forms
• Invoices
• Subscription pages
• Payment pages
• Client agreements
• Recruiter agreements
• Separate billing policies
• International payments may be processed through providers such as Stripe, Razorpay, or other authorised payment processors.
• For customers in India, billing and local payment collection may be facilitated through authorised India arrangements where applicable.
• Users are responsible for applicable taxes, duties, charges, and compliance obligations relating to their use of paid services unless otherwise stated in writing.

17. Refunds and Cancellation

Refunds, cancellations, subscription changes, renewals, and service credits are governed by the applicable payment terms, order form, invoice, subscription plan, or separate billing policy.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, paid access, subscription fees, setup fees, verification fees, recruiter access fees, or service fees may be non-refundable once service access or work has started.

18. Intellectual Property

All intellectual property in the platform, website, software, workflows, designs, brand names, logos, databases, content, code, interface, documentation, and technology belongs to Worldhire Global Ltd or its licensors, unless otherwise stated.

You must not copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, license, modify, reverse engineer, scrape, frame, mirror, or exploit any part of the platform without written permission.

The names Worldhire, Korum, Select, and Sphere may not be used in a way that suggests unauthorised association, endorsement, partnership, or ownership.

19. Platform Data and Usage Restrictions

The platform, including candidate profiles, recruiter activity, reach-out / connection activity, access logs, matching workflows, search results, and confidential hiring processes, is proprietary to Worldhire.

You must not:

• Export platform data to create another database
• Use candidate data outside authorised hiring workflows
• Resell, syndicate, or commercially exploit platform data
• Train external AI systems or databases using platform data without written permission
• Share login credentials or access with unauthorised users
• Use automated tools to extract data

20. Privacy and Data Protection

Your use of the platform is also governed by our:

• Privacy Policy
• Cookie Policy
• Candidate Consent Policy
• Recruiter Code of Conduct
• Confidentiality & Consent Policy
• Data Retention & Deletion Policy
• Subprocessors & Data Locations page, where applicable
• By using the platform, you acknowledge that personal information may be processed as described in those policies.
• Users must not submit personal information about another person unless they have the right or permission to do so.

21. Third-Party Services

The platform may use or link to third-party services, including hosting providers, cloud providers, security and CDN providers, payment processors, transactional email providers, the AI help-assistant provider that powers help answers grounded only on our own published help articles, and partner websites.

The platform does not currently integrate third-party analytics, advertising or marketing, document-workflow, electronic-signature, or identity-verification services. Messaging, consent-led access acceptance, and identity handling are provided in-app as first-party features.

We are not responsible for third-party websites, services, security, content, availability, terms, or privacy practices.

Your use of third-party services may be governed by their own terms and policies.

22. Partner Offices and Local Support

Worldhire Global Ltd may be supported by India operations and selected independent partner offices across various countries.

Unless specifically stated in writing, partner offices are independent local partners or associates and are not subsidiaries, branches, legal offices, employees, or agents of Worldhire Global Ltd.

Worldhire is not responsible for unauthorised representations, commitments, contracts, warranties, payments, or obligations made by independent partners unless expressly approved in writing by Worldhire Global Ltd.

23. Service Availability and Changes

We aim to keep the platform available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access.

The platform may be unavailable due to:

• Maintenance
• Updates
• Technical issues
• Security issues
• Third-party provider issues
• Network failures
• Force majeure events
• Circumstances beyond our control
• We may change, improve, suspend, remove, or discontinue features, services, workflows, or access levels at any time.

24. Suspension and Termination

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate access if:

• You breach these Terms
• You breach any related policy
• You provide false or misleading information
• You misuse candidate, recruiter, or employer data
• You attempt unauthorised access
• You bypass consent, reach-out / connection, or consent-led access workflows
• You fail to pay applicable fees
• You create risk to users, clients, partners, or Worldhire
• We are required to do so by law
• Continued access may harm platform integrity, confidentiality, or security
• Termination does not affect rights, obligations, payments, confidentiality duties, or liabilities that arose before termination.

25. Platform Enforcement Rights

Worldhire may investigate reported misuse and take action where it considers appropriate.

This may include:

• Warning the user
• Restricting access
• Suspending or terminating accounts
• Removing content
• Blocking recruiter access
• Preserving audit logs
• Cooperating with legal or regulatory requests where required
• 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.

26. Disclaimers

The platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

Worldhire does not warrant that:

• The platform will always be available
• The platform will be error-free
• Search or matching results will be complete or accurate
• All candidates, recruiters, employers, or companies are suitable
• Any hiring outcome will be achieved
• All third-party information is accurate
• The platform will meet every user requirement
• Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

27. Limitation of Liability

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

• Indirect loss
• Consequential loss
• Loss of profit
• Loss of revenue
• Loss of business opportunity
• Loss of goodwill
• Loss of anticipated savings
• Loss caused by third-party services
• Hiring decisions made by recruiters or employers
• Candidate decisions, withdrawals, non-joining, or misrepresentations
• Employer or recruiter withdrawals, delays, or misrepresentations
• Unauthorised user conduct outside our reasonable control
• Disputes between professionals, recruiters, employers, companies, clients, partners, or third-party users
• Breaches of a consent-led access agreement or confidentiality obligations by users
• Commercial, employment, fee, salary, incentive, or commission disputes between users
• Worldhire Global Ltd will not be liable for disputes, breaches, losses, claims, or damages arising from the conduct, communications, negotiations, agreements, consent-led access breaches, employment decisions, or commercial arrangements of professionals, recruiters, employers, companies, partners, or other third-party users, except to the extent caused directly by Worldhire’s own unlawful act, negligence, fraud, wilful misconduct, or liability that cannot be excluded by law.
• Nothing in these 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 Terms
• Your breach of related policies
• Your misuse of the platform
• Your unlawful conduct
• Your unauthorised use of another person’s information
• Your misuse of candidate, recruiter, employer, or company data
• Your breach of confidentiality, consent, consent-led access, reach-out / connection, or access restrictions
• Your content or information submitted to the platform
• Your communications, negotiations, employment decisions, or commercial arrangements with another user

29. Confidential Information

Users may receive confidential information through the platform, including candidate information, employer information, role details, salary details, hiring mandates, business information, consent-protected information, and platform workflows.

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 account closure or termination.

30. Force Majeure

Worldhire will not be responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, including internet failures, cloud provider outages, cyber incidents, strikes, legal restrictions, natural disasters, war, civil unrest, pandemics, power failures, or government actions.

31. Changes to These Terms

We may update these 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, we may notify users through the website, email, account notice, or another appropriate method.

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

32. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These 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.

33. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact:

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