General terms.

• These terms form an integral part of all B-Recruited agreements and documents unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing. Special terms prevail in case of conflict.
• The other party’s terms are excluded.
• B-Recruited provides consultancy, recruitment and selection, Try & Hire and project support.
• Contractor: B-Recruited. Client: its customer. Candidate: anyone introduced to the client for hire.
• The client confirms that it has been sufficiently informed about the services, methods, objectives and context.

• Invoices are deemed received no later than three days after their date and are payable within fifteen days unless agreed otherwise in writing.
• Payments are first allocated to interest and costs due.
• A reasoned dispute must be sent by registered letter within eight days; a dispute does not suspend payment.
• Late payment makes other claims immediately due. Interest under the Belgian Act of 2 August 2002 and liquidated damages of 10%, at least EUR 250 per invoice, are due without notice, without prejudice to proven higher loss.
• These rules remain applicable when payment facilities are granted.

• For non-payment or breach, B-Recruited may, after notice without useful remedy within eight days, suspend services or terminate the agreement, while retaining its claim for damages.
• B-Recruited may terminate within thirty days if the client lacks creditworthiness and may require adequate security.
• If the client instructs B-Recruited in writing to stop handling vacancies, performance is suspended until a new instruction.
• Either party may terminate on three months’ notice starting on the first day of the following month.
• Immediate termination by the client without fraud or gross fault by B-Recruited triggers compensation equal to three times the average invoiced over the preceding three months.

Agreement

B-Recruited assists in finding candidates for a vacancy defined by the client. Agreements run indefinitely unless special terms say otherwise. Expired exclusivity may be extended for the same period and the full file is provided on request. B-Recruited’s obligations are best-efforts obligations.

Fees

The selection fee may be paid in two parts: 50% when the cooperation with the introduced candidate is signed, and 50% two months after start if it remains active. The second part is not due if the candidate independently leaves within two months, but remains due if the client dismisses them. Moving a candidate from B-Recruited payroll or a business takeover does not extinguish the fee.

Candidates

The client contacts each candidate or gives feedback within five working days. Interim hiring does not alter the fee. Written or email evidence establishes introduction; hiring during the agreed period makes the fee due. During the agreement B-Recruited does not approach the client’s staff for another role unless they contact B-Recruited themselves.

• Professionally obtained confidential information is kept secret and maximum discretion applies towards candidates and interested parties.
• Each party uses measures at least as effective as for its own confidential information.
• Information is used only for its intended purpose and accessed only by staff, contractors or advisers who need it and are bound by confidentiality.
• Breach permits cessation and compensation, fixed at EUR 2,500 per proven breach and increased where greater loss is proven.

• Party data may be used for customer administration, studies, service delivery and promotion, within applicable legal bases and transparency duties.
• Confidential information is handled under the GDPR and applicable e-privacy rules.
• No disclosure to third parties without prior written consent, except processors or parties needed for performance.
• People may request access, correction and, where legally permitted, erasure. The separate website privacy notice contains current information for visitors and candidates.

Invalidity of one or more provisions is limited to those provisions and does not affect the remainder. The parties replace an invalid clause with a valid one matching the original intention and spirit as closely as possible.

• If a planned location is unavailable due to force majeure, the client finds another location or date without passing candidate costs on.
• Force majeure releases B-Recruited from performance without compensation, including where a necessary third party is prevented.
• Examples include accident, equipment failure, exceptional weather, fire, strike, theft, unrest, epidemic, serious illness, flood, natural disaster, government action, supplier bankruptcy, armed robbery and unavoidable supply-chain failures.
• Bankruptcy, manifest insolvency or a legal-status change of the client permits termination by operation of law.
• After more than three months of impossibility, B-Recruited may terminate without compensation.
• For a fundamental, non-attributable change making performance unfairly onerous or almost impossible, the parties renegotiate; failing agreement, Article 10 applies.

• B-Recruited is liable only for proven gross fault or intent and only for its proven share.
• Liability is limited to direct loss; lost profit, financial or commercial loss, production loss, overhead, administration, data, contracts, non-material loss and customer loss are excluded.
• Maximum liability is capped at the paid contract value of the original work.
• B-Recruited is not liable for third-party loss or force majeure; the client indemnifies it against non-contractual claims including court and defence costs.

• Every dispute is first referred to an accredited mediator and each party attends at least one meeting personally or through a decision-maker.
• If mediation has no prospect, only the competent courts of the Antwerp judicial district, Antwerp division, have jurisdiction.
• All judicial recovery costs, including legal fees, are borne by the client.