ZipRecruiter can suspend or permanently close your account at any time, for any reason, without warning, and the company states it has no liability to you for doing so, including for any data deleted as a result.
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Job seekers who rely on ZipRecruiter for active job applications and employers running active hiring campaigns could lose access to their accounts and all associated data without advance notice or explanation.
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 →Your account and all data within it, including saved job applications, resume materials, and candidate pipelines for employers, can be deleted without warning, and the agreement states ZipRecruiter bears no liability for this outcome.
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Where required by law, which may include in the Province of Québec, we will provide you with written notice of the suspension or deactivation of your account, including the reasons which led us to take such action.
we have adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
"ZipRecruiter may suspend or terminate your account and/or your access to the Services, or any portion of the Services at any time without notice to you, for any reason, including if in our sole discretion we determine that you have violated the terms of this Agreement. You agree that we will have no liability to you for any termination or suspension of your access to the Services or your account, or the deletion of information contained within such account.Excerpt from ZipRecruiter's Terms of Use
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Job seekers who rely on ZipRecruiter for active job applications and employers running active hiring campaigns could lose access to their accounts and all associated data without advance notice or explanation.
Your account and all data within it, including saved job applications, resume materials, and candidate pipelines for employers, can be deleted without warning, and the agreement states ZipRecruiter bears no liability for this outcome.
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