Please read these terms of service (“terms”, “terms of service”) carefully before using the DES On-Demand website (the “service”) operated by DES Employment Group (“us”, ‘we”, “our”).

Conditions of Use

We will provide Employment/Recruiting services to you, which are subject to the conditions stated below in this document. Every time you visit this website or use its services, you accept the following conditions. This is why we urge you to read them carefully.

Privacy Policy

Before you continue using our website, we advise you to read our privacy policy [link to privacy policy] regarding our user data collection. It will help you better understand our practices.

Copyright

Content published on our website (digital downloads, images, texts, graphics, logos) is the property of DES Employment Group and/or its content creators and protected by international copyright laws. The entire compilation of the content found on this website is the exclusive property of DES Employment Group, with copyright authorship for this compilation by DES.

Communications

The entire communication with us is electronic. Every time you send us an email, or visit our website, you are going to be communicating with us. You hereby consent to receive communications from us. If you subscribe to the news on our website, you are going to receive regular emails from us. We will continue to communicate with you by posting news and notices on our website and by sending you emails. You also agree that all notices, disclosures, agreements and other communications we provide to you electronically meet the legal requirements that such communications be in writing.

Applicable Law

By visiting this website, you agree that the laws of the State Of Iowa, without regard to principles of conflict laws, will govern these terms of service, or any dispute of any sort that might come between DES Employment Group and you, or its business partners and associates.

Disputes

Any dispute related in any way to your visit to this website or to our services from us shall be arbitrated by state or federal court of Iowa and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

Comments, Reviews, and Emails

Visitors may post content as long as it is not obscene, illegal, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or injurious in any other way to third parties. Content has to be free of software viruses, political campaign, and commercial solicitation.

We reserve all rights (but not the obligation) to remove and/or edit such content. When you post your content, you grant DES Employment Group non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right to use, reproduce, publish, and/or modify such content throughout the world in any media.

License and Site Access

We grant you a limited license to access and make personal/business use of this website. You are not allowed to download or modify it. This may be done only with written consent from us.

User Account

If you are an owner of an account on our website, you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your private user details (username and password). You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password.

We reserve all rights to terminate accounts, edit or remove content and cancel services at our sole discretion.

Employee Assignment

If you the CLIENT use the services of any Assigned Employee as your direct employee, as an independent contractor, or through any person or firm other than DES during the first 6 months after any assignment of the Assigned Employee to CLIENT from DES, CLIENT must notify DES and (a) continue the Assigned Employee’s assignment from DES for his or her remaining consecutive work hours for CLIENT up to (refer to the signed General Staffing Agreement) hours completed; or (b) you may choose to hire on a “temp to hire” employee before the hour requirement is complete for an additional fee. The Assigned Employee is ineligible for hire upon completion of hours or on a buy-out basis if CLIENT billing is not current. CLIENT must be in good standing and have no past due invoices or the buy-out provision is null and void.

You the CLIENT are not permitted to contact a DES employee outside of the On Demand service. The CLIENT will not use information provided by DES or DES On Demand to hire an employee outside of an assignment with DES Employment Group. Failure to abide by this may result in legal recourse.