Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and Facultique ("we", "us") for using facultique.com. We've kept them short and in plain language. By creating an account or using Facultique you agree to them. If you don't, please don't use the service.

1. What Facultique does

Facultique helps department chairs and other people who hire teaching staff for an academic institution ("chairs") find and talk to pre-vetted scholars who teach in higher education, whether to grow their pool of adjuncts or to cover a class at short notice.

• We are a connection service, not a party to any hiring. We are not an employer, recruiter or staffing agency, and we are not a party to any contract, job offer or employment relationship between a department and a scholar. Pay, contracts, right-to-work and background checks, and the teaching itself are agreed directly between them.
• We review scholars before chairs can find them (their CV, LinkedIn profile and a short intro video, sometimes a short call). We can't guarantee that everything users tell us is accurate, or that a chair and a scholar will reach an agreement.

2. Your account

• You must be at least 18 and give accurate information. One person per account; keep your password to yourself.
• Chairs must be authorised to hire, or to recommend hiring, teaching staff for their department. We may check this, and we may approve, refuse, suspend or close accounts at our discretion.
• Scholars are responsible for the accuracy of their profile, CV, LinkedIn profile and intro video, including their work authorisation, which is self-reported.

3. Chat requests

• A chair can send a scholar a chat request with a short message explaining why they'd like to talk. Before answering, the scholar sees the chair's institution, department, title and message, but not the chair's name or contact details.
• Chairs see scholar profiles without the scholar's name, photo, intro video or contact details. These unlock both ways only when the scholar accepts the chat request, and only for that chair.
• The scholar can accept or decline. If they don't answer within the reply window shown when the request is made, the request expires.
• Once a request is accepted, both sides can message each other in Facultique and share contact details. Please keep messages professional and relevant to teaching work.
• After a scholar declines, the same chair may have to wait before asking that scholar again. Only one open request per chair and scholar is allowed at a time.

4. Fees

• Facultique is free for scholars. We never charge scholars and never take a cut of their pay.
• Creating an account and searching verified scholars is free for chairs. There are no subscriptions and no invoices.
• Facultique may charge chairs a fee per chat request. The fee that applies, if any, is always shown before you send a request. We may change fees for future requests, never for a request you have already made. During early access, and for some chairs, requests may be free.
• You're only charged if the scholar accepts. When a fee applies, you pay by card through our payment provider (Stripe). We place a hold (an authorisation) on your card when you send the request. We collect the fee only when the scholar accepts. If the scholar declines, doesn't answer before the request expires, or you cancel before they answer, we release the hold and you are not charged.
• Once a scholar has accepted, the fee isn't refundable, except where the law requires it or we decide otherwise (for example if the scholar's profile turns out to be seriously inaccurate). Prices don't include taxes such as VAT where these apply.

5. Fair use

• Use Facultique only to find, or to offer, genuine teaching work.
• Don't try to identify a scholar before they accept a chat request, don't scrape or copy profiles, and don't pass on contact details you receive to anyone who doesn't need them.
• Don't put contact details into a chat request or decline reason before a request is accepted (we block them), don't harass or spam anyone, and don't upload anything false, unlawful or not yours to share.
• We may review chat messages when we need to for support or safety, for example when someone reports a problem or we suspect abuse. See our Privacy Policy.

6. Your content

You keep ownership of what you upload, such as your CV, photo, intro video, profile text and messages. You allow us to store and process it (including, only if you opt in, with an AI service that fills in your profile from your CV) and to show it to other users as described in these terms and our Privacy Policy, for as long as your account is open.

7. Liability

• We provide Facultique "as is". We work hard to keep it available and accurate, but we can't promise it will always be error-free or uninterrupted.
• We are not responsible for the conduct of users, or for any agreement (or disagreement) between a scholar and an institution.
• As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, or your rights under consumer-protection law.

8. Closing your account

You can close your account at any time by emailing contact@facultique.com. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms. Fees for chat requests that were already accepted remain payable.

9. Changes and contact

We may update these terms. If a change is significant, we'll tell registered users by email or in the app before it takes effect. Questions? Email contact@facultique.com.