Terms & Conditions

1. Introduction

Welcome to interns.ng, (hereinafter referred to as the "Site" or as 'interns Ng' interchangeably), a portal of Choice Interns Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Choiceinterns). These terms and conditions of use ('Terms') constitute a legal agreement between you and Interns.ng. Use of this Site constitutes your unconditional acceptance of these Terms herein and by all terms, policies and guidelines incorporated by reference. These Terms apply to your use of this Site, and do not alter in any way the terms or conditions of any other agreement you may have with interns.ng, its subsidiaries or affiliates. If you are using the Site on behalf of any entity, you further represent and warrant that you are authorized to accept these Terms on such entity's behalf, and that such entity agrees to indemnify interns.ng for violations of these Terms. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use this Site.Any individual and organisation wanting to make use of Site to post internships/jobs (hereinafter referred to as the 'internships') for self or for an organisation he/she represents is referred to as 'Recruiter' or 'Recruiters' as context may demand.Any individual wanting to make use of Site to apply to Jobs listed on interns.ng, is referred to as 'Intern' or 'Interns' as context may demand.

2. Registration Data and Account Security

In consideration of your use of the Site, you agree to: (a) provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted by any registration forms on the Site ('Registration Data'); (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data, and any other information you provide to Interns.ng, to keep it accurate, current and complete; (c) maintain the security of your password and identification; (d) notify interns.ng immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security; (e) accept all responsibility for any and all activities that occur under your account; and (f) accept all risks of unauthorized access to the Registration Data and any other information you provide to interns.ng. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more details on how we collect, store, use, and retain your data on the Site.

3. Most Important Terms & Conditions for Recruiters

These Terms, specifically for Recruiters, are in addition to the other generic Terms & Conditions listed on the page which are common to all the users of the site and which you are required to go through. Any violation of these Terms may result in, but not limited to, a Recruiter's Internship being declined for publication on interns.ng and/or his/her account being permanently blocked and/or appropriate legal action being initiated against him/her by interns.ng.

4. Internship Posting T&Cs

1. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are authorized to post internships on your organization's behalf. Any dispute or legal claim arising out of unauthorized posting would be solely your liability and you indemnify interns.ng of all possible consequences of such actions.

2. If you upload your organization's logo while posting your internship or creating/updating your company profile, you are authorizing interns.ng to display it on our website along with internship listings or in the list of our clients. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are duly authorized to share your organization logo with 3rd parties and allow them to use it.

3. Interns.ng reserves the right to publish the Internship listing of Recruiters on its social media handles and job board partners like LinkedIn, Indeed etc., and in newspapers in order to increase the visibility of the internship listing.

4. You must provide accurate and complete details about the organization and the internship opportunity. Any act of misinformation or hiding material information would result in your account being permanently blocked or any other suitable action as deemed fit by interns.ng.

5. You may be asked for documents in the name of your company for our first-time user authentication process. This information will only be used for authentication purposes and will not be used anywhere else in any form.

5. interns.ng does NOT allow

1. Training programs and any such program where Applicants are expected to pay a security deposit or an admission fee. To charge money in any form (including test fee, security deposit, documentation fee, etc.) from the Applicants for offering internships is strictly prohibited.

2. Modelling Internships.

3. Network Level Marketing (NLM) jobs/internships where applicants/individuals have to use their personal connections and personal social media accounts to promote a business.

4. Any Internship where there is a possibility of an Applicant consuming alcohol or smoking or inducing others to do so, as the majority of our users are underage.

5. Individuals or organizations promoting explicit religious content, a particular religious personality or a sect, etc. are not allowed to post Internships on interns.ng.

6. Businesses promoting or dealing in gambling, porn, and other prohibited/illegal/age-inappropriate activities.

7. Third-party internship listing. You can post internships only for the organization that you directly work for. Recruiting agencies or any third-party agencies are authorized to post internships on their clients' behalf only after sharing the client's confirmation via email/authorization letters.

8. Any internship where there is a possibility of an Applicant promoting betting or activities not suitable for people under 18 years of age such as Rummy, Poker, etc.

9. Any freelancing opportunity.

10. Recruiters to offer different profiles to applicants than the advertised one.

11. Organizations to entrust applicants with the task of opening bank accounts on behalf of the Organization as part of the shortlisting process.

12. Recruiters to ask applicants to sell/promote their products/services as part of the shortlisting process.

13. Recruiters ask applicants for personal documents like BVN, ATM pins etc, Card details at the shortlisting stage.

6. Hiring T&Cs

1. It is your responsibility to ensure that there is no material difference between the Internship details that are advertised on interns.ng and the details that are communicated to Applicants later in the selection process (pre-interview, in offer letter etc.). Any ‘negative' material difference (such as offered stipend being lower than what was advertised) will result in suitable action being taken by interns.ng against you.

2. Any assignment(s) that you may give to Applicants to assess their suitability for the Internship should be fair and relevant to the Internship profile. Any attempt to get work done for free from Applicants disguised as assessment or to get them to download or generate downloads for your app or get likes/shares/comments etc. for your social media handles only for the purpose of getting free publicity disguised as an assignment are strictly prohibited and would invite suitable actions against you.

3. All your communications with Applicants (through interns.ng Chat or otherwise) should be professional and must not contain any obscene or offensive content.

4. Once you hire any Applicant(s) for your internship position, you must provide them with an offer letter clearly detailing all the important details of the Internship (such as role & responsibilities, remuneration, and payment mechanism) and complete address and contact details of your organisation.

5. You must pay the promised remuneration to the selected Applicants in a timely manner as per agreed terms and conditions in the offer letter. Non-payment of the remuneration or delayed payment of the remuneration is strictly prohibited and would invite suitable action against you.

6. You must respond within 72 working hours to any Applicant complaints regarding your internship that we may bring to your notice. Failure to do so may result in a temporary or permanent suspension of your interns.ng account depending on the nature of the complaint.

7. If you come across any suspicious activity, content or behaviour on interns.ng by an Applicant or another user, you must report it to interns.ng immediately so that necessary actions can be taken.

8. While we put our best efforts to reach out to the best talent available in the country, posting your Job on Interns.ng does not guarantee hiring. Interns.ng always recommends recruiter to terminate the internship/job within 15 days if the candidate's performance is unsatisfactory.

7. Appliquant data usage T&Cs

1. You can use the Applicants' data that you receive for your internship solely for the purpose of hiring. Any attempt to send any other communication (promotional content for example) to the Applicants or any other usage of the data is strictly prohibited.

2. You are strictly prohibited from transferring/selling/sharing Applicants' data, for free or for a fee, to any other entity. Any such attempt would result in your account on interns.ng being permanently blocked and would be liable for legal action against you and your organization.

8. Payment & refund T&Cs

1. Payments for the services offered by Interns.ng shall be on a 100% advance basis.

2.Refund if any will be as per our Refund Policy

3.Interns.ng offers no guarantees whatsoever for the accuracy or timeliness of the refunds reaching the Employers card/bank accounts.

9. General T&Cs

1.Upon submission of email and phone number, users are automatically subscribed to receive our newsletter, recruiter digests, WhatsApp notifications, SMS notifications, and/or any other marketing or transactional communication from us. You may opt out of these communications at any time.

10. Most Important Terms & Conditions for Applicants

These Terms, specifically for Applicants, are in addition to the other generic Terms & Conditions listed on the page which are common to all the users of the site and which you are required to go through. Any violation of these T&Cs may result in, but not limited to, an applicant's internship application being declined and/or his/her account being permanently blocked and/or suitable legal action being initiated against him/her by interns.ng.

1. If you have applied for an internship on Interns.ng and receive a communication from Interns.ng or Recruiter regarding your application, you must respond to it with-in 72 hours.

2. Once you accept an internship offer, you must make every possible effort to join and start the internship on time. To not show up or to decline an earlier accepted internship offer at the last moment, or to go incommunicado creates a very poor impression of you in front of the Recruiter and reduces the credibility of the Applicant community at large. Any such behaviour will result in your account being blocked on Interns.ng.

3. You must provide accurate and complete information at the time of internship application or creating an account on interns.ng– any misrepresentation of information, or hiding of material information, or impersonation would result in your account being blocked on the site.

4. You must pay attention to an internship's complete details (profile, location, remuneration, skills required, etc.) before applying for it. Irrelevant applications will result in your account being penalized (we may stop you from indicating interest to future internships or block your account all together)

5. You are strictly prohibited from transferring/selling/sharing Recruiters' data (contact details etc.), for free or for a fee, with any other entity. Any such attempt would result in your account on interns.ng being permanently blocked and would be liable for legal action against you.

6. Interns.ng community is a community of sincere users who are known for and are expected to demonstrate high standards of professionalism in their dealings with other users and Recruiters – you are required to maintain these standards and decorum of the community. All your communications with other users of Interns.ng (through Interns.ng Chat or otherwise) should be professional and must not contain any obscene or offensive content.

7. You agree to have gone through the ‘Safety Tips for Applicants' section of these Terms and have understood the same.

8. While it is our endeavour to provide you with accurate and reliable internship information; it is always possible for an error to occur. Hence, you must conduct your own due diligence and research about a recruiter or organisation before starting an internship and take full responsibility of the same. You further agree to have read and understood the ‘Disclaimers' section of these Terms and explicitly and specifically agree to it.

9. If you come across any suspicious activity, content or behaviour on interns.ng by a Recruiter or another user, you must report it to interns.ng immediately so that necessary actions can be taken – this is both your duty and obligation.

10. While we make our best efforts to bring you the best internship opportunities possible, interns.ng does not guarantee an internship opportunity to an intern.

11. Upon registration, your registered email id and phone number will be automatically subscribed to receive email, WhatsApp notifications and SMS notifications from Interns.ng. You may opt out of it anytime. You will also receive job alerts (mails detailing jobs that match your interns.ng profile) - you may unsubscribe from these job alert emails by clicking on the Unsubscribe link in these emails.

12. Interns.ng reserves the right to remove your photo if it doesn't feature your likeness or a headshot photograph. If we take down your photo, you can upload a new one of yourself to make things right.

13. If you upload your profile picture, you are authorizing Interns.ng to share it with recruiters and other relevant users of Interns.ng platform.

Safety Tips for Applicants

Interns.ng does NOT allow Recruiters to:

Further, it is mandatory for Recruiters to ensure that:

11. Disclaimers

This Site and its content are provided 'as is' and Interns.ng and its directors, employees, content providers, agents and affiliates exclude, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any warranty, express or implied, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose. Interns.ng will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site. The functions embodied on or in the materials of this site are not warranted to be uninterrupted or without error. You, not Interns.ng assume the entire cost of all necessary care or correction due to your use of this site or content. Interns.ng makes no warranty that the site or the content is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties. Interns.ng uses reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy, correctness and reliability of the Content, but we make no representations or warranties for the same. Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, interns.ng or third parties. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site or by separate license or agreement. Any unauthorized use of these images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and other applicable laws.

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