Terms of use

Affinity Search Partners publishes this website on the conditions written here. Opening the site and reading it counts as accepting them. Anyone who would rather not accept them should close the page.

What the site is for. This site exists to describe what Affinity Search Partners does for employers: placing technical staff and technology leaders on contract, on contract-to-hire terms and permanently. It describes; it does not offer. No page here forms an engagement, sets a fee or creates any contract between a reader and the firm. Work for a client begins only with a written agreement signed by both sides, and if that agreement and this site ever say different things, the agreement wins.

Emails we send to businesses. Part of our work is writing to people whose jobs touch the kind of hiring we do: HR leads, talent acquisition partners, technology managers and the people around them. Those emails can be stopped by whoever gets one, simply by replying and saying so. The privacy policy on this site explains what sits behind those emails and how to have your details corrected or removed.

Samples and illustrations. The checklist drawn on the home page, and any board, chart, table or figure that appears here or in material linked from here, is an illustration of how a piece of work might be organised. None of it records a client. None of it predicts what a search will produce, and no reader should take it as a promise of results.

Using the site properly. The site is for reading. Use it lawfully and for that purpose. Do not interfere with it or with the servers behind it, do not try to reach areas that are not public, do not probe it for weaknesses, and do not point crawlers, scripts or other automated tools at it to copy what is here. Ordinary indexing by search engines, to whatever extent we allow it, falls outside this paragraph.

Ownership of the content. Everything here, the words, the layout, the drawn checklist and the logo, belongs either to Affinity Search Partners itself or to those who license material to the firm. Readers may look at the pages and print them for reference inside their own business, and nothing more: no reproducing, republishing or redistributing without written permission from us. Rights in work done for a client come from the client agreement, which these terms do not alter.

Links and outside services. Two kinds of outside resource sit behind this site. There are links, to the main Affinity Search Partners website and to the firm's page on a professional network. And there is a font service, which supplies the typeface the pages are set in. Each is run by someone else, on that party's own conditions, and those conditions govern once you follow a link or a page pulls the font. The privacy policy notes what the font service learns when that happens.

No warranties. We offer the site as it stands and as it happens to be available. So far as the law lets us, we give no warranty about it at all, spoken or implied, and that includes implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for any particular purpose, of accuracy and of non-infringement. Uninterrupted or error-free operation is not promised either. Nor does anything here amount to advice, whether professional in nature, legal, financial or to do with employment, so please do not treat it as advice.

Limits on our liability. Where liability can lawfully be limited, it is limited like this. Affinity Search Partners is not responsible to any reader for indirect damages, incidental damages, special damages, consequential damages or punitive damages arising from the site, whatever their cause and whatever legal theory is relied on. The same goes for profits, revenue, data and business opportunities that are lost. Everything the firm could owe in connection with this site, taken together, cannot exceed one hundred US dollars. Where a jurisdiction refuses to allow one of these limits, that limit applies only as far as that jurisdiction allows.

Your responsibility to us. Misusing the site, or breaking these terms, makes you responsible for the consequences. You agree to defend Affinity Search Partners, to hold the firm harmless and to indemnify it against the claims, losses and costs that follow, reasonable attorneys' fees among them.

Governing law and how disputes are settled. The law of the State of Tennessee applies to these terms and to anything arising from the site, and the State of Tennessee's own choice-of-law rules are set aside for that purpose. If a disagreement between a reader and the firm is not settled by talking, it goes to binding arbitration. The arbitration takes place in Williamson County, Tennessee, and runs according to American Arbitration Association rules. Should the law refuse to let a particular dispute be arbitrated, the Tennessee courts hear it instead.

The rest of the terms. A clause that turns out to be unenforceable drops away on its own; the others stand. Letting a breach pass once does not mean the firm has given up the right to act on the next one. These terms plus the privacy policy make up the entire understanding on the subject of this site. Updates happen from time to time; the effective date beneath the heading says when the current wording took effect, and continuing to use the site after a change signals acceptance of the new wording.

Getting in touch. Anything to raise about these terms should go by letter to Affinity Search Partners, 5123 Virginia Way, Suite A23, Brentwood, TN 37027, or through the contact page on our main website.