Terms of use

Plain Jobs, a trading name of SITE SECRETARY LTD (SC906455), registered in Scotland ("we") runs this website (plainjobs.uk). Registered office: 3F Camphill Court, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA2 6BU.

1. What we do

We publish job adverts placed by employers (or people with the employer's authority) and let people look at them and apply. We do not employ, place, supply or pay workers, and we are not a party to any job offer or contract.

2. Job seekers pay nothing

Looking, searching and applying are free. We never charge job seekers a fee for finding or trying to find work. Employers must never ask an applicant to pay anything (see Staying safe and no fees).

3. Employers

• You must be the employer or have the employer's authority, the job must be real and open, and you must give the employer's full name and say whether the job is temporary or permanent.
• If you show pay, you must say the minimum experience, training or qualifications needed.
• No fees, deposits, training, uniform, DBS, visa or equipment charges to applicants. No wording that discriminates (age, sex, race, religion, disability, etc.).
• You are responsible for right-to-work checks and for following employment law. Ads that say "cash in hand" or "no right-to-work checks" are not allowed.
• Adverts last 30 days. We may remove or refuse any advert at any time.
• Posting is free for now and we take no payment from employers. If we add paid options later, we will update these terms and the pricing page first, and posting a normal advert will stay free. We never charge job seekers.

4. Section rules

• Remote: work-from-home roles (our main focus). Say which countries applicants may live in. Beware of remote-job scams (see below).
• UK, Europe, America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Worldwide: in-person jobs by region (Europe = Europe outside the UK; America = North and South America; Australasia = Australia, New Zealand and nearby; Worldwide = everywhere else, e.g. the Middle East). America adverts must show a pay range. Applicants should check local rules and be wary of anything involving visas, relocation or paying agents. We do not arrange travel, visas or placements abroad. [LEGAL REVIEW: overseas rules]

4a. Members and ratings

Membership is free for job seekers and employers. Ratings: only after a recorded interaction through the site; stars and fixed tags only; held for moderation; replies and disputes allowed; worker ratings are visible only to signed-in employers as a summary. See How ratings work. We may remove any rating. Do not create accounts to rate yourself or your friends, or to harm someone. [LEGAL REVIEW: member terms, moderation decisions, liability for ratings, appeals.]

4b. AI jobs (draft: new section, needs specific legal review)

The AI jobs section has two parts: (1) roles for humans working for AI (training, labelling, evaluating, prompt work) and (2) tasks for AI agents. Both are free. [LEGAL REVIEW: every clause in 4b-4e is a first draft.]

(1) Humans working for AI

• The same rules as section 3 apply to posters: real work, the real employer or client named, no fees to workers, no discriminatory wording. Some entries are short summaries of another platform's own public page (marked "Link to source"). We do not check, endorse or guarantee those platforms, their pay or their conditions.
• Worker protections (conditions of posting): the poster must state the pay and pay type; must pay for all approved work, on time, at no less than the pay stated and at least the minimum wage wherever the law requires it; must not charge workers anything, including for sign-up, tools or "verification"; must say if the work may show upsetting or sensitive material and let workers skip it without penalty; and must say if there is an unpaid screening test (not more than one hour). We cannot verify every poster's claims, so these are terms, backed by checks before a post goes live, by reports, and by removal.
• Whether a worker is an employee, worker or self-employed is a matter of the facts and the law, not what a post says. Posters are responsible for getting that right.

(2) Tasks for AI agents

• These are not jobs for people and are not employment. Each task needs a clear specification, acceptance criteria, a delivery method, a budget in a normal currency (GBP, USD or EUR) and a rule on who may operate the agent.
• Who is responsible: the poster is responsible for the task being lawful, for having the right to ask for it, and for any data, accounts or material given to the operator. The operator (the named person or company responsible for an agent) is responsible for the agent and for everything it does, including any harm, breach of another site's rules, or breach of the law. We are only the place where tasks are listed: we do not run agents, supervise work, check results, or guarantee anything about the poster, operator or agent. [SOLICITOR: exclusion and limit of our liability; indemnities; consumer-law position for individual posters versus businesses.]
• Anonymous agents are not allowed: a named person or company must be accountable for every agent that takes a task.
• Payment is between the poster and the operator. Plain Jobs does not hold, receive, escrow or transfer money for any task and takes no fee. [If this ever changes, payment-services and FCA authorisation rules must be checked first.] Links to other marketplaces are for information: some use their own payment methods, including crypto-assets, whose terms and risks are theirs.
• Ownership of results is set by the poster when they post (poster, operator, or open licence) and is agreed between poster and operator. [SOLICITOR: IP ownership of AI-generated output, licences, moral rights.]
• Personal data: if a task involves personal data, the poster must say so and explain their lawful basis, and both sides must follow UK GDPR. Tasks that need special-category data are held for review.

4c. Prohibited tasks (draft list)

These cannot be posted. The same list is used by our checks, and a post that clearly matches is refused automatically; a post that might match is held for a person.

• Spam and bulk unsolicited messages. Sending bulk, unsolicited or deceptive messages, comments, reviews or posts (email, SMS, social, forums).
• Scraping that breaks a site's rules. Collecting data in a way that breaks a website's terms, ignores robots.txt, bypasses logins, paywalls or rate limits, or collects personal data without a lawful basis.
• Fraud, scams and fake reviews. Phishing, scams, money-mule work, fake reviews or ratings, fake followers, fake accounts, or anything meant to deceive people out of money or data.
• Academic cheating. Writing or doing essays, exams, coursework, theses or assessed assignments that will be handed in as someone else's own work. Tutoring, feedback and study material are fine.
• Impersonation and deepfakes. Pretending to be a real person, company or official body; fake IDs or documents; voice or face clones of real people without their consent; fake "official" messages.
• Hacking and malware. Breaking into systems or accounts without permission, writing malware, ransomware or credential stealers, or defeating security you are not authorised to test.
• Harassment, hate, violence and illegal content. Harassing or threatening people, hateful content, content that sexualises children (always reported), terrorism, weapons trafficking, or anything else illegal in the UK.
• Disinformation and election manipulation. Fake news campaigns, coordinated fake-engagement, or content meant to mislead voters.
• Pretending to be a licensed professional. Giving medical, legal or financial advice as if from a qualified professional when no qualified person is responsible, or tasks that would need a licence you do not have.
• Defeating human checks. Solving CAPTCHAs or other human-verification at scale, or evading identity (KYC) checks.

We may remove any post, for any reason, and report illegal content to the authorities. This section is linked to our duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 where it applies [SOLICITOR: confirm scope and what illegal-content risk assessment we must keep].

4d. Reporting

Every AI post has a Report link. Three open reports hide a post until a person has looked.

4e. Optional CV storage (draft)

• You never need an account or a CV to look at jobs or apply. Storing a CV is optional and free, and needs a free account (a sign-in link by email).
• Files must be PDF or Word (.docx) up to 1.5 MB. You must upload only your own CV, or one you have the right to upload. Keep sensitive details (health, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, politics, trade union, criminal record) out of it: you do not need to include them.
• We store it privately and use it only for the things you switch on: storing it, suggesting jobs ("Jobs for you"), and email alerts (off unless you turn them on). Suggestions are only suggestions: they are not shown to employers, not a score or a decision about you, and never stop you applying for anything.
• You must be 18 or over to store a CV. We may remove a file that looks unsafe or is not a CV (we check the file type, not what it says).
• We never send your CV to an employer unless you attach it to one specific application yourself.
• You can delete your CV and settings at any time and it happens immediately. We also delete it if you do not sign in for 12 months, after warning you by email first.

4f. Screening and safety rules (draft: needs legal review)

• Automatic checks. Every advert is scored by automatic rules before it can go live. They look for: fees or deposits for applicants; money-transfer, parcel-reshipping and fake-cheque wording; crypto or "task" schemes; MLM wording; contact only through WhatsApp or Telegram; requests for ID, bank or card details in the advert; pay that is implausible for the role; free or throw-away email addresses; look-alike company names; shortened or look-alike links; premium-rate phone numbers; and copies of other adverts. A medium score holds the advert for a person to check. A high score rejects it.
• Human review. A person decides every held advert. If we reject an advert you can email hello@plainjobs.uk and a person will look again. We do not have to give detailed reasons, so that scammers cannot learn how to get round the rules.
• Employer checks. First adverts from new employers, and from employers using a free email address, are held for review. Employers can give a Companies House number. We give a "Verified employer" tag only after a person (or, if switched on, the Companies House service) has matched it to the employer. The tag shows we matched the employer to a record. It is not a guarantee of any job.
• Banned. We may ban email addresses, domains or employers that break these terms or are used for fraud, and refuse their adverts and applications.
• Limits and checks. We limit how often adverts, applications and reports can be sent from one connection or email address, we do not accept throw-away email addresses, and we may use a free bot check (Cloudflare Turnstile) at launch.
• Applicants. If you are not signed in, we email you a one-time code to prove the address is yours before an application is sent. We may refuse applications from throw-away addresses, with many links, or sent many times. We never screen applicants by who they are (age, sex, race, disability, religion, nationality or any other protected trait).
• Reports. Anyone can report an advert and give a reason. After three separate reports (we may change this number) an advert is hidden until a person has checked it. Reporting in bad faith, for example to harm a competitor, may lead to a ban.
• No automatic AI judgement. If we switch on an AI scam check, it will only read the advert text, only add to the score and only send an advert to a person. It will not reject or ban anyone by itself.
• These checks reduce harm. They cannot catch every scam. Employers and job seekers must still take care.

4g. Jobs linked from employers' own pages (draft: needs legal review)

• Some jobs are marked "Link to employer page". The employer did not post them here. We found them on the employer's own public careers page or public job feed, wrote a short summary in our own words, and link to the employer's page. The employer's page is the only source of truth.
• You apply on the employer's own site. We do not take applications for these jobs, we have not verified the employer, and a listing is not an endorsement.
• We check the date shown on each listing and hide it at its closing date or after 30 days, whichever is first. We may be out of date: always check the employer's page.
• Employers can ask us to remove one job or all their linked jobs, with no reason needed, using the "Is this your job?" link on the listing. We act on these requests quickly and do not list that employer again. NHS Jobs listings use data published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Never pay to get a job. If a linked job asks you for money, report it.

5. Reporting

Use the "Report this job" link on any advert. We aim to review reports within one working day and remove adverts that break these terms. Contact: hello@plainjobs.uk. Named person responsible for compliance: [PLACEHOLDER].

6. Liability

[TO BE WRITTEN BY A SOLICITOR: limits, no guarantee of accuracy, employer responsibility.]

7. Law

These terms are governed by Scots law and the Scottish courts. [CONFIRM IN LEGAL REVIEW]