Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) explain the rules for using forwarddeployedhiring.com and everything on it (the “Site”). The Site is run by Forward Deployed Hiring (“Forward Deployed Hiring”, “we”, “us” or “our”), a US recruiting firm that helps companies hire Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs).

By visiting the Site, filling in a form, or using any of our free tools or templates, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

Who These Terms Apply To

The Site is used by two main groups, and these Terms apply to both:

Employers (“Clients”): companies, and the people acting for them, who want help hiring FDEs.
Candidates: engineers and other professionals who want to be considered for FDE roles with our Clients.

They also apply to anyone else who simply browses the Site or downloads a resource. If you use the Site on behalf of a company, you confirm that you are allowed to accept these Terms for that company.

What We Do

Forward Deployed Hiring helps Clients with the early stages of hiring. For each role, we source candidates and run a first round of vetting that includes a technical screen and a customer role-play. We then share a shortlist of candidates with the Client.

Clients run their own final interviews and make their own hiring decisions. Anyone a Client hires becomes that Client’s own employee, not an employee or contractor of Forward Deployed Hiring.

Separate Client Agreements

Interviewing candidates we introduce is free for Clients. If a Client decides to hire, the commercial terms for that placement, including any fees, payment terms and any replacement guarantee, are set out in a separate written agreement between us and that Client.

These Terms only cover use of the Site. They do not create, change or replace any Client agreement. If these Terms and a signed Client agreement conflict, the Client agreement controls for the matters it covers.

Candidates Never Pay Us

We do not charge candidates anything, at any stage. We will never ask you for money to be considered for a role, to be introduced to an employer, or to access our resources. If someone claiming to represent Forward Deployed Hiring asks a candidate for payment, please do not pay and let us know at hello@forwarddeployedhiring.com.

No Guarantee of a Hire or a Job

We work hard to match good candidates with good roles, but we cannot promise any particular result. In particular:

Submitting a form does not guarantee that we will work with you or reply within any set time.
Candidates are not guaranteed an introduction, an interview or a job offer.
Clients are not guaranteed that we will find a candidate for a role, that a candidate will accept an offer, or that a hire will work out.
Our vetting is a professional judgment based on limited time with each person. It is not a background check, reference check or guarantee of future performance.

Clients are responsible for their own interviews, reference and background checks, offers, and compliance with employment, immigration and anti-discrimination laws. Candidates are responsible for deciding whether a role and an employer are right for them.

If you are a candidate, we will only share your resume, profile or other identifying details with a specific Client after you have agreed to be put forward for that Client’s role. We will not send your details to employers without your permission.

When a Client receives candidate information from us, the Client should use it only to evaluate that candidate for the role in question and should keep it confidential. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information in more detail.

Information You Give Us

When you submit a form or send us information, you agree that:

the information is accurate and yours to share, and you will tell us if it changes;
you will not submit someone else’s details without their permission; and
you will not include information that is confidential to a current or former employer, or sensitive personal details we have not asked for.

You keep ownership of anything you send us. You give us permission to store it, use it and share it as described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy so that we can respond to you and provide our services.

If you send us ideas or feedback about the Site or our services, we may use them freely without owing you anything.

Free Resources and Tools

The Site offers free resources, such as guides, interview scorecards, role-play scripts, templates and a job description generator. Some of them ask for your name, work email and company before you can open them.

You may use these resources for your own hiring or for your company’s internal hiring, including editing them to fit your needs. Please do not resell them, republish them as your own product, or remove our name from copies you share outside your company.

These resources are general information to help you think through hiring. They are not legal, HR or employment advice. Text produced by the job description generator is a starting draft built from the options you choose. You are responsible for reviewing anything you use from the Site, and for making sure your job posts and hiring process are accurate and comply with the laws that apply to you, such as pay transparency and anti-discrimination rules.

Acceptable Use

When using the Site, you agree not to:

break any law or anyone else’s rights;
submit false, misleading or impersonating information;
send spam, malware or anything harmful through our forms;
scrape, copy or harvest content or data from the Site using automated tools, except for normal search engine indexing;
try to get around any access step, test our security, or interfere with how the Site works; or
use the Site or our resources to build a competing recruiting service or to contact our candidates or Clients in a way that bypasses us.

We may block access or ignore submissions from anyone we believe is misusing the Site.

Intellectual Property

The Site and its content, including text, guides, templates, tools, graphics, design and the Forward Deployed Hiring name and logo, belong to Forward Deployed Hiring or the people who license them to us. They are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws.

Apart from the limited use of free resources described above, these Terms do not give you any right to use our content or brand. Please ask us first if you want to use them in some other way.

Links to Other Websites

The Site may link to other websites and services, such as a scheduling tool, job boards or articles we find useful. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or privacy practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

Disclaimers

We try to keep the Site accurate and available, but we provide it and all of its content and resources “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises or warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any about accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or the Site being uninterrupted, secure or free of errors.

Market information on the Site, such as salary ranges, hiring timelines or descriptions of the FDE role, is general and may not reflect your situation.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Forward Deployed Hiring will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data or business opportunity, arising from your use of the Site or its content, even if we were told such loss was possible.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the Site or these Terms will not exceed one hundred US dollars (US$100). Some places do not allow certain limits on liability, so some of these limits may not apply to you.

Liability relating to recruiting services for a Client is governed by that Client’s separate agreement, not by this section.

Indemnity

If you misuse the Site, break these Terms, or submit information you had no right to share, and that leads to a claim against us by someone else, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim, including reasonable legal fees.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through the Site, how we use it, and the choices you have. It forms part of these Terms.

Changes to the Site and These Terms

We may change, pause or remove any part of the Site or our resources at any time.

We may also update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the new version on this page and change the “Last updated” date above. If a change is significant, we will make reasonable efforts to point it out on the Site. If you keep using the Site after an update, you accept the new Terms.

Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the state in which Forward Deployed Hiring is organized and by applicable US federal law, without regard to conflict of law rules.

If you have a concern, please contact us first at hello@forwarddeployedhiring.com. Most issues can be sorted out quickly that way. If we cannot resolve it informally, either of us may bring the matter before a court with jurisdiction over it.

General

Whole agreement: These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the full agreement between you and us about the Site. Any Client agreement covers our recruiting services separately.
Severability: If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
No waiver: If we do not enforce a part of these Terms right away, we can still enforce it later.
Assignment: You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours, for example as part of a merger or sale of our business.

Contact Us

Questions about these Terms? Email us at hello@forwarddeployedhiring.com.

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