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The choice of California law determines which legal standards and protections apply to disputes, which may differ from the user's home jurisdiction.
The updated terms establish region-specific contractual frameworks replacing the previous unified agreement. Job seekers and employers now operate under distinct terms based on geographic location: users in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India are covered under one agreement, while EU, U.K., and Switzerland users follow separate terms. The revised terms introduce explicit mandatory arbitration clauses, liability limitations, indemnification obligations, and a new Job Applicant Privacy Notice. Job seekers should review the arbitration provision, which requires disputes to proceed through arbitration rather than litigation. You can review the applicable regional terms based on your location at ZipRecruiter's website before creating an account or posting content.
View change record →The reader's disputes with ZipRecruiter will be decided under California law rather than the law of the reader's own state or country, subject to any overriding mandatory law.
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"Unless otherwise required by a mandatory law, this Agreement and any Disputes shall be governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of California, without respect to its conflict of laws principles.Excerpt from ZipRecruiter's Terms of Use
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The choice of California law determines which legal standards and protections apply to disputes, which may differ from the user's home jurisdiction.
The reader's disputes with ZipRecruiter will be decided under California law rather than the law of the reader's own state or country, subject to any overriding mandatory law.
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