This page and referenced policies tell you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.hirepro.co.za (“HirePro”), whether as a guest or a registered user.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using HirePro, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them.

Last update: October 2024

Information about us
www.hirepro.co.za is a site operated by Evided PTY LTD (“We”). We are registered in South Africa under company number 2018 / 084106 / 07. We are a limited company.

We are solely a marketplace for buyers and Freelancers to interact. We do not search for, select or introduce buyers and Freelancers to each other. As a result, we are not regulated under The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 and / or other employment agency laws do not apply to us.

Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

If you are under the age of 18, you may not use the services on our website. We reserve the right to refuse to offer the services to any person or entity and change eligibility criteria at any time. Where these terms or use of the services is prohibited or conflicts with any applicable law, rule or regulation, the right to access the services is revoked.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

Using our site
Without limiting its ability to seek alternative remedies, HirePro may restrict any user’s ability to use the website, deactivate or terminate their account, forfeit or withhold funds, in its absolute discretion, if we have reason to believe or suspicion that the user’s dealings with HirePro constitute fraudulent activity, wrongdoings or related to money laundering. Users acknowledge that if their use of the website is in breach of any local or national laws with respect to fraud or money laundering, any payments made may be liable to forfeiture or may be frozen by HirePro. To the extent permitted by law, HirePro shall not be liable to that user for any such payments, nor shall it incur any liability to any user where it is required to give information or documentation relating to that user to any relevant regulatory authority in such cases.

HirePro reserves the right to withhold payments payable to any person, group of persons or legal entities acting in concert or as a syndicate to defraud the company, pending the outcome of a subsequent investigation by the proper authorities. To the extent permitted by law, HirePro shall be entitled to withhold and forfeit monies in user’s accounts in the event of fraudulent or money laundering acts by the user. The user agrees to indemnify HirePro, its directors, employees, shareholders, consultants and advisors for all losses and damages suffered by it as a result of fraud, or reasonable belief that there is fraud and/or a money laundering activity. The withholding and forfeiture, and claims for losses and damages will extend to all users who are involved and/or which the Company believes to be involved in such fraud and wrongdoings.
“Wrongdoings” and/or “fraud” shall include but not be limited to attempts to circumvent these terms and conditions, hacking, unauthorized use of the account access information, account or third party accounts, attempts to circumvent or bypass any security mechanisms available on the website or HirePro’s systems or networks, wrongfully, deliberately or knowingly transfer funds from a third party’s account or funds not lawfully owned, any act or omission through use of the website of HirePro services cause any harm to the company or to any third party, false personal information, fund transfers in any actions and/or omissions which the company reasonably deems to be fraudulent and/or wrongdoings.
In the event that HirePro will suspect fraud or fraudulent activity on the user’s part or any of the user’s payments are charged back, HirePro will have the right to withhold any pay-out due to the user and if necessary, to lawfully collect any payments in remaining balances.
We reserve the right to use your brand to promote HirePro for marketing purposes.

Acceptable use
When using our site, you shall not:

• take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third-party providers’) infrastructure;
• interfere with the proper working of the services we provide or any activities conducted on the services;
• attempt to bypass or circumvent any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the services;
• run any form of auto-responder or ‘spam’ on the services;
• use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to “crawl” or “spider” any page of the site;
• harvest or scrape any Content from the services; or
• otherwise take any action in violation of our guidelines and policies.

It is also not allowed to:

• decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the services, except to the limited extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction;
• modify, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of any part of the services; or
• copy, rent, lease, distribute, or otherwise transfer any of the rights that you receive hereunder.

You shall abide by all applicable local, national and international laws and regulations.

Intellectual property rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

We grant to each user a license to use content solely for purposes of using HirePro in accordance with these terms.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Reliance on information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability
We try to keep HirePro running at all times, but we cannot guarantee to do so. We cannot guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to the Website as it may be interfered with by factors outside of our control.

We also try to make sure that all the information that we place on HirePro is accurate, but we cannot guarantee this either.

We use techniques that aim to verify the accuracy of the information provided by our Users; however, user verification on the internet is difficult. HirePro cannot and does not confirm, and is not responsible for ensuring, the accuracy or truthfulness of Users’ purported identities or the validity of the information which they provide to us or post on HirePro.

We do not control any information provided by Buyers and Freelancers that is placed on the Website. We take reasonable steps to monitor information which is posted on the Website, including but not limited to any Proposal, project posting or Workstream and may require the removal of any information which breaches our policies.

To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:
  • loss of income or revenue;
  • loss of business;
  • loss of profits or contracts;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of data;
  • loss of goodwill;
  • wasted management or office time; and
  • whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Information about you and your visits to our site
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Linking to our site
You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the homepage. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to support@hirepro.co.za

Links from our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Jurisdiction and applicable law
The South African courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These terms of use are governed by South African law.