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Terms of service

Last updated 21 October 2026.

Accounts

You must be 16 or over and provide accurate information. Candidates must only upload qualifications and documents that genuinely belong to them. Agencies must use candidate data solely for genuine recruitment purposes.

Candidate membership

Creating a profile and being visible to subscribing agencies is free of charge. You can publish or unpublish your profile at any time, and your data is never deleted when you unpublish.

Agency subscriptions and allowances

Solo (£149/month) includes 25 candidate searches and 25 contact unlocks per billing month. Agency (£399/month) includes 50 of each. Enterprise is quoted annually with unlimited searches. Allowances reset at the start of each billing period and do not roll over.

Billing, cancellation and refunds

Payments are taken by Stripe. Subscriptions renew automatically; cancel any time from your billing page and access continues to the end of the paid period. Consumers in the UK/EU have a 14-day right to cancel a new subscription; where a plan has already been used (profile made visible, unlocks spent) a proportionate deduction may apply. Prices exclude VAT, which is added at checkout where applicable.

Acceptable use

No scraping, bulk export, resale of candidate data, or contacting candidates about anything other than work opportunities. We may suspend accounts that breach these terms.

Liability

FoundWorker is a database and introduction service. We do not employ candidates, guarantee placements, or verify every document beyond the checks marked as verified.

How FoundWorker works legally

FoundWorker is an information service and candidate visibility platform. We are not an employment agency or employment business, and we do not employ candidates. We do not place candidates into work, set their pay or working conditions, or act as an intermediary between candidates and agencies under the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

When an agency engages a candidate through the platform, the contract for work is made directly between the agency and the candidate. The agency is solely responsible for its own legal obligations to that candidate, including right-to-work checks, pay, holiday entitlement, working time, health and safety, pensions and auto-enrolment, insurance and compliance with the Employment Rights Act 2025 as it phases in.

FoundWorker does not run payroll and does not move workers' money: pay is settled directly between the agency and the candidate. We display qualifications and documents that candidates upload, and mark the checks we have completed, but we do not carry out every check an agency would make before engaging someone — agencies must carry out their own due diligence, including verifying identity and right to work.

Nothing on FoundWorker is a job offer or a guarantee of work. Candidates are not charged for being visible to agencies, in line with the prohibition on charging work-seekers for finding them work.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Who you are contracting with

FoundWorker is operated by FoundWorker.com Ltd, a private limited company registered in England & Wales under company number 17462660, incorporated on 16 September 2026.

Registered office: 10 Western Road, Romford, Essex, England, RM1 3JT.

The company is not currently VAT registered; VAT is not charged on our invoices.

You can check our entry on the public register at Companies House.