Terms

Referly is operated by [LEGAL NAME AND REGISTERED ADDRESS]. Using the service means accepting these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use it.

You need to be 16 or older, and old enough to work where you live. One account per person, under your real name, matching the LinkedIn account you sign in with.

Questions about any of this go to support@referlyhq.com.

You sign in with LinkedIn, which is how both sides know the other is a real person with a real work history. Keep that account secure; anything done through yours is treated as done by you.

What you put on your profile has to be true: where you work, what you have done, and what you can offer. Claiming to work somewhere you do not is the single thing this service cannot survive people doing, and it is grounds for removal without warning.

You can delete your account yourself, whenever you like, from your profile. See the privacy page for what that removes and the one thing it does not.

By posting, you are saying all of the following, and you need all of them to be true:

• You actually have the connection to the role that your listing claims: you work there, or you know the team, or you know the hiring manager.
• The role is real, currently open, and the link goes to the real posting for it.
• Your employer permits you to do this. Referral schemes usually have rules, and some companies forbid publicising open roles. Checking is on you, not on us.
• You will not ask anyone for money to refer them, in any form, on or off this platform. This is the one rule with no second chance.

You decide who to refer and you are free to refer nobody. What you must not do is accept someone, take their CV, and then go quiet: mark what happened, even if the answer is that you did not put them forward.

Everything you tell a referrer has to be true. A referral puts the referrer's own standing at their company behind you, which is a real thing to spend, and inventing experience spends it on a lie.

Your CV goes to a referrer only after they accept your request, never before. Send only what you are willing for a stranger at that company to read.

You will never be charged for this. If anyone on Referly asks you for money, do not pay them, and report them: it is a violation of these terms and we want to know.

When you ask for a referral, an AI model reads your profile and CV against the role's requirements and writes a short plain-language summary of how they line up. Both of you see it.

It produces no score, no ranking and no verdict, because it has nowhere to put one: there is no such field. It never accepts, rejects, filters or orders anybody. Every decision in the referral flow is made by a person, and that person can ignore the summary entirely.

It can be wrong. It is a reading of your CV, not a judgement of you, and it is advisory for the referrer rather than a finding about you. There is more detail on how AI is used here.

• Charge, or offer to charge, for a referral.
• Claim a job, a company or an employment history that is not yours.
• Post a role you have no connection to, or one that does not exist.
• Harass, threaten or abuse anybody, or send unsolicited pitches or spam.
• Use anyone's CV or contact details for anything other than the referral they sent it for. It is theirs, for one purpose.
• Scrape the service, or automate accounts, requests or messages.
• Discriminate on any ground the law protects.

Report and Block are on every profile and every conversation. Blocking is instant and needs no reason. Reports are read by a person.

Your profile, listings, messages and CV belong to you. You give us permission to store and display them for the purpose of running the service, and nothing else. We do not sell them, license them to anybody, or use them to train AI models.

Delete your account and that permission ends with it, along with the content itself.

Posting, browsing and asking for referrals are free. Job seekers are never charged anything, ever, and that is not a launch offer.

A referrer can pay to feature a listing, which buys placement in the feed for a set number of days. It buys attention and nothing else: not a hire, not a request, not a single person clicking. Payment is handled by Stripe and we never see your card details.

Featured placement is a digital service that starts immediately, so once a listing is live the money has been spent. If we fail to deliver the placement you paid for, write to us and we will refund it. Any statutory cancellation rights you have where you live are unaffected by this paragraph.

You can stop using Referly and delete your account at any time, from your profile page. No notice, no reason, no waiting.

We can suspend or remove an account that breaks these terms. Where we can, we will say what happened and give you a chance to answer. Where the breach puts someone at risk, we will act first, because the alternative is leaving somebody exposed while we correspond.

We provide the place where two people meet. We do not check that a referral is submitted, that a company responds, that a job exists tomorrow, or that anyone behaves well. What people say about themselves is theirs to stand behind, not ours to guarantee.

So we are not responsible for hiring outcomes, for what a referrer or a seeker does, for a role being withdrawn, or for a referral going nowhere. If the service is unavailable, we will fix it, but we do not promise it is always up.

What we do not exclude, and cannot: liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, and anything else the law where you live does not permit us to disclaim. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, your statutory rights apply in full and nothing on this page reduces them.

Where liability can be limited, it is limited to what you have actually paid us in the twelve months before the problem, which for most people is nothing, because most people never pay us anything.

These terms are governed by the law of [JURISDICTION], and disputes go to its courts.

If you are a consumer, this does not take away your right to bring a claim where you live, or the protection of your own country's consumer law. You can also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform if you would rather not go to court.

If we change these terms in a way that matters to you, we will tell you in the app rather than quietly editing this page and updating the date. Carrying on using Referly after that means accepting the new version; if you would rather not, delete your account.