Terms and Conditions

1 Introduction

www.sjs.co.nz (our website) is owned and operated by Student Job Search Aotearoa Inc (SJS, we, us, our). These terms of use (Terms) constitute an agreement made between you, the website user, (you, your) and us. You must not access or use our website (including any microsite) unless you accept all terms of use. By accessing and using our website you are agreeing that you have read, understood, and accepted these terms of use, and agree to be bound by them.

2 Your Privacy

Where we collect personal information about you as a result of your access and use of our website, our Privacy Policy will apply to that information. Accordingly, these terms and conditions must be read together with our Privacy Policy.

3 Changes

We reserve the right to add to, modify, or remove our website or any information, feature, specification, or other part of our website (at any time and without notice to you). We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time by publishing the changed terms on our website. You should review these terms and conditions periodically to be aware of such changes. Your continuing access or use of our website following such publication shall be deemed your acceptance of the revised terms and conditions.

4 Your account

To access certain information and features offered on our website, you must create an account. To create your account, you must complete your account details in the manner described on our website (including selecting a username and password which we will use to verify your identity when you use our website). You must ensure that your account details are complete and accurate when submitted to us, certify that the information that you have given is true and correct, and you must keep your account details up to date. We may at our sole discretion (at any time and without notice to you) suspend or terminate your account, or your ability to use the functions available through our website. You have the right to contact us to request information about this decision or to appeal the decision.

5 Your username and password

Your login credentials (being your username and password) are personal to you. You must always maintain the confidentiality of your username and password and not disclose them to any third party. You agree that you are solely responsible for any use of our website by any person using your username and password and you agree to indemnify us against any claims arising out of your failure to maintain the confidentiality of your username or password. You agree to not impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity. We will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account (whether with or without your knowledge). You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your account or any other breach of security.

6 Your use of the website and our services

6.1 Any of the following may use our job listing services on our website:

• An employer;
• An individual seeking assistance at home (Household Customer);
• A charity seeking volunteers or workers; or
• A recruitment agency or employment partner who on-sells our services by charging a commission or fee to hire a student or graduate sourced by advertising on our website.

6.2 Any employer, recruiter, household customer or charity that lists a job on our website must report to SJS on placement outcomes for the role advertised within six (6) weeks of the job listing’s close date.

6.3 You agree not to use our website for any purpose that is unlawful or to engage in any conduct that is likely to impair or cause damage to the operation of our website whether by way of a virus, corrupted file or through use of any other software or programme. Furthermore, you agree not to alter, modify, reproduce, transmit or otherwise deal with the content, software, text, graphics, layout, or design of our website without our prior approval.

6.4 Student Job Search is neither the employer nor employee. You agree Student Job Search is an employment platform connecting students with employers and the legal employment relationship and responsibility lies between the employee (student) and employer.

6.5 If you post a listing on our website your listing must:

• comply with New Zealand law, including without limitation, the Human Rights Act 1993, the Minimum Wage Act 1983 and any other relevant employment laws;
• be accurate and not misleading; and
• not contain any offensive or harmful content.

7 Payment

7.1 Unless otherwise stated in an Advertising Agreement, Sales Agreement or any other agreement with us, all amounts owing to us must be paid within 14 days of the date of an invoice.

7.2 You are obliged to pay for the products and services that we agree to provide you regardless of whether you utilise or fully utilise those products or services. If you do not provide us with the necessary materials or information for us to deliver these products or services to you, you are still liable to us for full payment.

7.3 We offer payment via debit/credit card or direct credit through invoicing. Please note that available payment methods (and fees, if any) may change from time to time.

7.4 As at the effective date of these Terms, we charge payment method fees for collecting payment by credit/debit card.

7.5 We may charge you interest on late payments at our applicable bank interest rate plus any costs we reasonably incur as a result of collecting your payment. We may specify the interest rate associated with late payments in your Advertising Agreement, Sales Agreement or any other agreement with us, in which case that rate will apply to you. ⁠If you do not pay your invoice on time, we may disable your account and we are not obliged to supply further products or services. If you dispute any charges, please contact us as soon as possible to discuss your concerns.

7.6 You agree that (in compliance with any applicable Privacy Laws, Credit Laws and other Applicable Laws) we may obtain from either a credit reporting agency / bureau or other credit providers credit information about you (including personal credit information) and/or your directors or a consumer credit report about you for the purpose of collecting overdue payments relating to commercial credit owed by you.

7.7 You agree that we may disclose information to a credit reporting agency or interested persons as reasonably necessary and only to the extent allowable under applicable Privacy Laws, Credit Laws and other Applicable Laws. You will confirm your consent to such disclosure in writing if we require.

7.8 The total amount/s invoiced by us to you will be subject to, and inclusive of, all indirect transaction taxes, transaction and payment fees, (if applicable) and any other applicable taxes as required by Applicable Laws from time to time (including Applicable Laws that apply to us). Invoiced amounts may differ from what is quoted in our agreement with you in certain circumstances (e.g. where the tax rate changes or new taxes are introduced).

7.9 Where required, you must provide appropriate withholding tax documentation to support any amounts of tax withheld from settlement of an invoice. If you fail to do so, we are not obliged to supply you with further products and services.

8 Removal of listings

8.1 We do not screen every listing posted on our website and we take no responsibility for any offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or misleading content contained in a listing, nor do we take any responsibility for a listing that does not comply with New Zealand law.

8.2 We reserve the right to remove any listing or to temporarily or permanently restrict your access to our website if you post any listing which we consider in our sole discretion:

• contains any offensive or harmful content;
• is misleading or inaccurate;
• does not comply with New Zealand law;
• infringes any intellectual property rights.

9 User content

9.1 Our website enables you to submit information and other user-supplied content (user content) for the purpose of creating job advertisements, or otherwise. By creating, modifying, transmitting, uploading, or submitting any user content, you:

• grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, licence to publicly display and make your user content available, excluding personal details, (by all means and in any media now known or hereafter developed) to other users of our website and other users of our services in such manner as we may permit from time to time;
• acknowledge and agree that no royalties or other remuneration will be paid or payable to you for your user content, or for the granting of the rights described above.
• warrant and represent that you have the right to grant the licence and that our publication of the user content will not infringe any third party’s rights or any applicable law;
• warrant and represent that the user content is accurate, complete and up-to-date, is not misleading or deceptive and is not offensive, defamatory or otherwise objectionable; and
• where the user content is for a job advertisement, warrant that the job being advertised is available on the terms set out in that user content.

9.2 We have no obligation to you to make our website or any user content available. We may at any time edit, refuse to display, or remove any part of our website (including your user content) as we deem appropriate.

10 Intellectual property

10.1 The materials displayed on our website are protected by copyright and other laws of New Zealand, and under similar laws and international conventions abroad. You acknowledge and agree that all copyright and other intellectual property rights that may subsist in our website including text, illustrations, photographs, video, music, sounds, layout, designs, source code, belong to us or to our licensors (together, ‘our intellectual property’). Except with our prior written permission, you may not in any form or by any means:

• use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, print, display, perform, publish, or create in any way any works contained in any part of our website; or
• commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of our website.

11 Feedback and unsolicited submissions

11.1 If you give us feedback about our website or our products or services, you grant us the right to use that feedback for the purpose of improving our website or services (and for any other purpose we deem necessary or desirable) without being obliged to pay you any compensation in respect of our use of that feedback. If you do send us unsolicited ideas:

• they will be treated as if they were ‘user content’ in accordance with these terms of use; and
• they will be deemed to be non-confidential; and
• we will not be required to provide any acknowledgement of their source.

12 Electronic communications

You consent to receiving communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You agree to be bound by any agreement reached through electronic communications in terms of Part 4 of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017. You consent to receiving electronic messages and information sent by us (or on our behalf) for any purposes described in our Privacy Policy. You agree, pursuant to section 11(2) of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007, that the person sending any such message need not include a functional unsubscribe facility in that message.

13 Disclaimers

13.1 While we endeavour to ensure that the content of our website is free from errors, we do not give any warranty or other assurance as to the content of material appearing on our website, its accuracy, completeness, timeliness or fitness for any particular purpose.

13.2 We give no guarantee to you of the continued availability of any job advertised on our website. We will not be liable to you should a prospective employer have filled the vacancy or vacancies at any time prior to removal of the advertisement from our website.

13.3 Verification of a user's study status is not the liability of Student Job Search. In the event of any indication of a discrepancy regarding a user's claimed study status, Student Job Search reserves the right to request proof of study from the suspected applicant. It is at the sole discretion of the employer to decide whether to continue engaging with applicants who may not meet the student criteria.

13.4 While we take efforts to ensure that jobs advertised are for actual job vacancies, we give you no guarantee that every job advertisement represents an actual job vacancy.

13.5 To the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide our website and related information and services on an “as is” basis without any warranties, representations, or guarantees of any kind (whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise) including, but not limited to, warranties of non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

13.6 If you are using our services for business purposes, you agree that the guarantees provided under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 shall not apply to those services.

14 Limitation of liability

14.1 To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all responsibility for any damages or losses (including, without limitation, financial loss, damages for loss in business projects, loss of profits or other economic losses) whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of, or inability to use, our website, our services, or any information or material appearing on our website, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using our website or any such services, information or material. If we do have any liability in connection with our website, or otherwise under these terms, to the extent permitted by law our liability is limited to $100.

14.2 Furthermore, both parties (students and employers) acknowledge and agree that Student Job Search is not liable for any damage or harm caused by either party (students and employers).

15 Indemnity

15.1 You indemnify and hold us harmless for any loss, damage, expense or liability that we incur arising from any claim made by you or a third party that is directly or indirectly related to:

• your access to or use of our services; or
• your breach of these terms and conditions or our rules of conduct.

16 Availability

Your use of our website and any associated services may sometimes be subject to interruption or delay. Due to the nature of the Internet and electronic communications, we and our service providers do not make any warranty that our website or any associated services will be error free, without interruption or delay, or free from defects in design. We will not be liable to you should our website or the services supplied through our website become unavailable, interrupted, or delayed for any reason.

17 Advertisements

We do not endorse or recommend any of the jobs or prospective employers advertised on our website. We do not endorse or recommend any prospective employees applying for employment using our services.

18 Promotions and giveaways

18.1 The promotion is available exclusively to students who registered with Student Job Search (SJS) between the dates of the advertised promotional period.

18.2 To be eligible to enter the competition, individuals must be registered with Student Job Search and meet all eligibility requirements, unless otherwise stated in the promotional details.

18.3 The prize is not exchangeable and cannot be redeemed as cash.

18.4 Student Job Search's determination of the prize winner will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.

18.5 If the prize winner does not claim their prize within 3 working days by providing the requested details including a valid address and email details, Student Job Search may choose a new prize winner, making the original prize winner ineligible to claim the prize.

18.6 Acceptance and utilisation of the prize are at the prize winner’s sole risk and responsibility. Student Job Search assumes no liability for the performance and/or quality of the prize.

18.7 By accepting the prize, the prize winner:

• agrees to be interviewed and photographed for any promotional activities associated with the giveaway, as requested by Student Job Search; and
• consents to their name, photograph and likeness being recorded, reproduced, published, copied, communicated and otherwise used by Student Job Search for advertising, publicity and promotional purposes on the internet and printed or any electronic materials throughout the world, in perpetuity, and without the need for any compensation.

18.8 The prize winner understands and agrees that they are not entitled to royalties or other compensation arising or related to the use of their image or any printed or electronic material.

18.9 Student Job Search reserves the right to change and vary the prize at any time and may substitute any prize for an alternative prize of similar value without any prior notice. The value of the prize will be solely determined by Student Job Search.

19 Third party websites

Our website provides links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties. Such linked sites are not under our control and we are not responsible for the contents (including the accuracy, legality or decency) of any linked site or any material contained in a linked site. We are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by us of the linked

20 Malicious code

Although we endeavour to prevent the introduction of viruses or other malicious code (together, ‘malicious code’) to our website, we do not guarantee or warrant that our website, or any data available from it, does not contain malicious code. We will not be liable for any damages or harm attributable to malicious code. You are responsible for ensuring that the process that you employ for accessing our website does not expose your computer system to the risk of interference or damage from malicious code.

21 Security

Although we endeavour to protect the security of your personal information you acknowledge that there is a risk of unauthorised access to (or alteration of) your transmissions or data or of the information contained on your computer system or on our website. We do not accept responsibility or liability of any nature for any losses that you may sustain as a result of such unauthorised access or alteration. All information transmitted to you or from you is transmitted at your risk, and you assume all responsibility and risks arising in relation to your use of our website and the internet. We do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which may arise in connection with your accessing of our website or any outbound hyperlink.

22 Governing law

These terms of use are governed by the laws of New Zealand and the courts of New Zealand shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute arising in relation to these terms of use.

These terms and conditions were last updated in February 2025.