Terms of use

These terms of use (the “Terms”) govern access to and use of the Noken platform (the “Platform”), available through a web browser and as an installable application.

The Platform connects people looking for opportunities (employment, training, scholarships, volunteering, support programmes) with the organisations that offer them.

Creating an account constitutes full acceptance of these Terms. Anyone who does not accept them must refrain from using the Platform.

• “Member”: any natural person holding an account, who browses opportunities and may build an online curriculum vitae.
• “Partner”: any organisation (company, association, institution, training provider) holding an account that allows it to publish opportunities and, under the conditions set out in article 7, to view profiles.
• “Publisher”: Declic, the organisation behind the Noken project, which administers the Platform, approves listings and carries out moderation.
• “Opportunity”: any listing published on the Platform, whatever its category.
• “Content”: any data placed on the Platform by a Member or a Partner (curriculum vitae, listing, comment, first-hand account, message).

Registration is free and requires a valid email address, verified by a six-digit code. It may also be completed using a Google account.

The Member undertakes to provide accurate information and to keep it up to date. They alone are responsible for the confidentiality of their password and for any activity carried out from their account.

The Publisher may suspend or close an account in the event of a breach of these Terms, in particular in cases of false declaration, impersonation or conduct harmful to others.

The Member may close their account at any time from their personal area, or on simple request to the Publisher.

Everyone undertakes to use the Platform in good faith. The following are prohibited in particular:

• publishing content that is false, misleading, defamatory, insulting, hateful or discriminatory;
• publishing fraudulent listings, or listings that make an application conditional on payment of a sum of money to the advertiser;
• automated collection of data (scraping, bulk extraction) by any means whatsoever;
• impersonating a person or an organisation;
• any attempt to compromise the security or the operation of the Platform.

Any breach may result in removal of the content concerned and closure of the account, without prejudice to any proceedings the Publisher or the injured parties may consider appropriate.

Opportunities are published either by the Publisher or by a Partner. Any listing submitted by a Partner is reviewed by the Publisher before going live; it may be rejected, in which case its author is given the reason and may correct it.

Any change made by a Partner to an already published listing triggers a further review before it goes live again.

The Publisher is neither the employer nor the organiser of opportunities published by third parties. It does not guarantee their accuracy, their availability, or the outcome of an application. It is for each person to check the decisive information with the organisation concerned before committing, in particular where a payment is requested.

Any listing that appears fraudulent may be reported from the Platform; the Publisher undertakes to examine it as soon as possible.

The Member may build a curriculum vitae on the Platform, entering it directly or importing it from a document, and may amend or delete it at any time.

This curriculum vitae is private by default. It is visible to no Partner until the Member has themselves activated the visibility setting provided for that purpose.

The Member may withdraw that visibility at any time, with a single setting. Their profile then ceases to appear in Partners' searches.

The processing carried out by the Platform is governed by Senegalese law no. 2008-12 of 25 January 2008 on the protection of personal data, and falls under the supervision of the Personal Data Protection Commission (CDP).

The data collected is used to create and manage accounts, for the matching described in articles 6 and 7, to improve the recommendations offered, and to compile usage statistics.

Certain information — sex, age range, disability status, region — is collected for statistical monitoring of the work carried out. It is used only in aggregate form and is never disclosed to Partners.

In accordance with the law, everyone has a right of access, rectification, objection and erasure in respect of data concerning them. These rights are exercised from the personal area or by request to the Publisher, who responds within the statutory time limits.

Data is kept for the lifetime of the account, then deleted or anonymised. Uploaded files (photographs, documents) are hosted with an infrastructure provider and protected by restricted access.

The Platform, its structure, its interfaces and its graphic elements are protected and remain the property of the Publisher.

Everyone retains ownership of the content they upload. By publishing it, they grant the Publisher the right to host, display and distribute it on the Platform, solely for the purposes of the service and for as long as it remains published.

The Publisher takes reasonable steps to keep the Platform available, without guaranteeing absolute continuity. Access may be interrupted for maintenance or for reasons beyond its control.

The Publisher cannot be held liable for content published by third parties, nor for the consequences of an application, a recruitment process or any step taken following an opportunity found on the Platform.

The Publisher may amend these Terms. Any substantial change gives rise to a new version, brought to users' attention, whose acceptance is requested at the next sign-in.

Continued use after acceptance constitutes agreement to the version in force.

These Terms are governed by Senegalese law.

In the event of a dispute, the parties shall endeavour to reach an amicable solution. Failing that, the dispute shall be brought before the competent courts of Dakar.