Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of ArchiCareer, including its website, accounts, public profiles and portfolios, project pages, posts, comments, professional connections, job listings, applications, and related services (together, the “Platform”). “ArchiCareer”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to the service operating under the ArchiCareer name. “You” means a visitor, account holder, applicant, recruiter, studio, firm, or other person using the Platform.

By browsing the Platform, creating an account, or using a feature, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform. The Platform is intended for professional networking in architecture and the wider built-environment sector.

These Terms are governed by applicable laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, subject to any mandatory consumer or other rights that apply to you. Nothing in these Terms removes rights that cannot lawfully be waived. Our contact details appear at the end.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to agree to these Terms to create an account. If you use the Platform for an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these Terms on its behalf; references to “you” then include that organisation.

Provide information that is accurate, current, and not misleading, and update it when it changes. Use an email address you control. You are responsible for keeping access to that email account secure, protecting your sign-in links and sessions, and activity carried out through your account. Do not share access in a way that lets another person impersonate you. Contact us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.

One person may not create accounts to impersonate others, evade restrictions, manipulate engagement, or misrepresent an organisation. We may ask for reasonable information to verify an account, listing, or report where necessary to protect users and the Platform.

ArchiCareer provides tools for people and organisations to present professional work, discover opportunities, and communicate. Unless we expressly say otherwise, we are not an employer, recruitment agency, architect, engineering consultant, educational institution, agent, or party to a contract between a candidate and a hiring organisation. We do not make hiring decisions or guarantee that a listing, profile, qualification, project credit, or user is accurate, complete, current, or independently verified.

Users and organisations are responsible for their own decisions, due diligence, interviews, references, professional checks, negotiations, and agreements. A listing or profile appearing on the Platform is not our endorsement. We do not promise that using the Platform will result in employment, clients, collaborations, commissions, professional registration, or any particular outcome.

The Platform is not a substitute for legal, architectural, engineering, financial, employment, or other professional advice. Do not rely on user-posted material as advice or as a substitute for checking applicable standards and requirements.

You control what you submit and, where a setting is provided, whether profile information is discoverable. Public profile information, projects, images, posts, comments, and job listings may be visible to anyone, indexed by search engines, copied, cached, or shared outside the Platform. Changing a setting or deleting content later may not remove copies already made by other people or search services.

Some file links, including uploaded profile or application CVs, may be accessible to anyone who has the relevant URL. Review a file before uploading and do not include information you are unwilling to share with people who receive its link. Application information is intended for the applicant and the organisation responsible for the listing, as further described in our Privacy Policy.

Do not publish another person’s personal information, confidential material, or contact details without authority and a lawful reason. You are responsible for choosing what to make public.

“Content” includes profile details, text, designs, drawings, renders, photographs, project documentation, plans, posts, comments, job listings, and other material you submit. As between you and ArchiCareer, you retain the rights you already hold in your Content. Uploading Content does not transfer its ownership to us. These Terms operate alongside applicable intellectual-property law, including Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022.

You give ArchiCareer a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to host, store, reproduce, technically adapt (for example, resize, compress, or format), display, and deliver your Content as needed to operate the Platform and provide the features you choose. This permission includes displaying public Content to visitors and sharing an application with the organisation to which you submit it. We may permit our infrastructure providers to handle Content solely to provide services to us. This permission ends when the relevant Content is removed from the Platform, except for copies retained in backups for a limited period, records we must retain, or copies already obtained by recipients.

We will not use your project or portfolio work in unrelated advertising or promotional materials under this licence. Any separate promotional use requires your permission or another lawful basis. You remain responsible for obtaining any permissions needed from collaborators, clients, photographers, employers, schools, or rights holders before uploading or publishing material.

You confirm that you own the Content or have all rights, permissions, consents, and authority needed to submit it and grant the permission above; that your submission does not breach confidentiality, privacy, employment, or other obligations; and that your use does not infringe another person’s intellectual-property or other rights. Give appropriate credits where required. Do not upload confidential project material or identifiable people’s images unless you are authorised to do so.

The ArchiCareer name, branding, software, layout, and Platform materials are owned by or licensed to us and are protected by law. These Terms do not grant you rights to our branding except to identify or link to the Platform in a truthful, non-misleading way.

Portfolio owners are responsible for the accuracy of project descriptions, dates, locations, roles, credits, qualifications, software skills, and other professional claims. Clearly distinguish your own contribution from work produced by a team, employer, client, or collaborator. Do not claim authorship, licensure, accreditation, or responsibility that you do not have.

Do not upload drawings, renders, plans, or site information that reveal confidential, security-sensitive, or commercially restricted details without permission. ArchiCareer does not inspect each portfolio item and cannot guarantee the suitability of material for a particular professional purpose.

Organisations posting opportunities are responsible for the accuracy and legality of their listings, including the identity of the hiring organisation, role description, location, compensation information where stated, application process, and any eligibility requirements. A firm must have authority to post on its behalf. Listings must not be deceptive, discriminatory, exploitative, unlawful, or designed to collect information for an unrelated purpose.

Applicants are responsible for the accuracy of their application, CV, portfolio, and messages, and for deciding what to send. Submitting an application shares its contents with the organisation responsible for that listing. We do not guarantee that an organisation will review or respond to an application, that a role remains available, or that an application will lead to an interview or offer.

Hiring organisations must use applicant information only for legitimate recruitment purposes, restrict access to people who need it, protect it, and handle or delete it in line with applicable privacy and employment laws. They must not republish applicant CVs, contact applicants for unrelated marketing, or retain application information longer than reasonably necessary or legally required.

Users should independently verify an organisation and opportunity before sharing sensitive information, paying money, travelling, or accepting an offer. Report suspicious listings to hello@archicareer.ng.

Use the Platform for lawful professional networking and treat other people with respect. You must not:

• break any applicable law, infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights, or violate a duty of confidentiality;
• harass, threaten, stalk, discriminate against, defame, exploit, or impersonate another person or organisation;
• publish false credentials, fraudulent listings, scams, misleading endorsements, malicious links, or knowingly deceptive material;
• send unsolicited bulk messages, spam, or commercial promotions outside features and permissions we provide;
• scrape, harvest, copy, or systematically collect profiles, contact details, applications, or other Platform data, or use automated access without our written permission;
• probe, disrupt, overload, bypass, or interfere with security, authentication, access controls, rate limits, or normal operation of the Platform;
• upload malware, harmful code, or content that is unlawful, exploitative, or intended to compromise another user; or
• use the Platform or information obtained from it to make decisions in a way that violates applicable law.

We may set reasonable technical limits to protect the service. You may not use Platform content to build a competing database or service without our written permission.

You can report suspected abuse, a misleading listing, or content that may violate these Terms by emailing hello@archicareer.ng with the relevant URL and a description. For an intellectual-property report, identify the protected work, the material in question, your basis to act for the rights holder, and a way to contact you. We may request additional information and take steps we consider appropriate after review.

We may remove, restrict, or disable Content or features, and may suspend or terminate an account, when we reasonably believe it is necessary to enforce these Terms, address safety or security risks, respond to a legal request, protect users or our rights, or comply with law. Where practicable, we will provide notice and a reason and allow you to contact us to explain or appeal. We may act without advance notice when delay could cause harm, compromise an investigation, or violate law.

We do not promise to monitor all Content or resolve every dispute. A moderation decision does not make ArchiCareer the publisher or guarantor of user Content.

The Platform may connect with or link to services operated by other parties, including authentication providers and external websites. Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy notices. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, availability, security, or practices. You decide whether to use them and should review their terms before sharing information.

You may stop using the Platform at any time and may request account deletion through the available account settings or by contacting us. Deleting an account removes or de-identifies information through the applicable deletion process, subject to legal, security, backup, and dispute-related retention. Some firm job listings may remain visible in closed status without an owner association so that the record of the opportunity is preserved. See the Privacy Policy for details.

We may suspend or end your access as described above. If your account is closed, your permission to use the Platform ends. Provisions that by their nature should continue, including intellectual-property rights, accrued obligations, disclaimers, liability limitations, dispute terms, and rights in content already obtained by others, will continue to apply.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features to maintain or improve the Platform, address security or legal requirements, or respond to operational needs. We will provide notice where required by law or reasonably practicable for a material change. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or permanent availability, and we may perform maintenance or experience outages.

We may update these Terms. The “Last updated” date will show when the current version took effect. For a material change, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, such as an in-product notice or email where appropriate. Continued use after updated Terms take effect means you accept them, to the extent permitted by law. If you do not agree, stop using the Platform.

To the extent permitted by law, the Platform is provided on an “as available” basis. We do not warrant that it will always be available, secure, uninterrupted, or free of errors, that Content will be preserved without interruption, or that user-provided information or opportunities are accurate or suitable for your needs.

Nothing in these Terms excludes a guarantee, consumer protection, or other right that applicable law does not allow us to exclude or limit. Where a disclaimer is not enforceable, it applies only to the maximum lawful extent.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud or any other liability that applicable law makes non-excludable. Subject to that rule and to mandatory consumer rights, ArchiCareer is not responsible for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, opportunity, goodwill, data, or business arising from use of the Platform, user Content, third-party services, or interactions between users, where such exclusion is permitted by law.

We are not responsible for another user’s conduct, a hiring decision, the accuracy of a listing or portfolio, or a dispute between an applicant and an organisation. This does not remove any duty or responsibility that applicable law places on us.

To the extent permitted by law, you are responsible for losses and reasonable costs directly resulting from your material breach of these Terms, your unlawful use of the Platform, or your Content infringing another person’s rights. This does not require you to compensate us for loss caused by our own breach, negligence, or unlawful conduct, and does not limit rights that cannot lawfully be limited.

If you have a concern, contact us first at hello@archicareer.ng and explain what happened and what resolution you are seeking. We will try to address it in good faith. This does not prevent you from contacting a regulator or using a legal remedy available to you. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018 and other consumer laws apply where relevant.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Subject to mandatory consumer protections and any rules that provide otherwise, disputes relating to these Terms or the Platform may be brought before a court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the agreement between you and ArchiCareer about use of the Platform, except where a feature presents additional terms. If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be adjusted only as much as necessary and the remaining provisions will continue. If we do not enforce a provision immediately, that does not waive our right to do so later.

You may not transfer your account or rights under these Terms without our consent. We may transfer our rights and obligations as part of a reorganisation or transfer of the service, subject to applicable law and appropriate notice. These Terms do not create an employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship between you and ArchiCareer.

Questions, complaints, or notices about these Terms can be sent to hello@archicareer.ng. For privacy requests, see our Privacy Policy.