Terms of use

These terms are between you and Second Lens. Using the checker means you accept them.

What this is

A tool that reads a job advert against a versioned register of UK and Northern Ireland employment law, corrects what can be corrected from the text alone, and produces a dated record of what it checked and what changed.

What this is not

It is not legal advice, and using it does not make us your adviser. Part of the check is done by AI, and AI can be wrong, so read what it says rather than simply taking it. It does not know your circumstances, it has not seen your contracts or your policies, and it is not a substitute for a solicitor on a question that matters.

It is not a formal legal audit, and a clean result is not a finding that an advert is lawful. The register covers the rules it covers. An advert can satisfy every one of them and still be unlawful for a reason the register does not reach.

It does not protect you from a claim. Nothing here transfers your responsibility for what you publish. The decision to publish an advert is yours, and so is the advert.

The rule set, and being honest about it

The register is versioned, dated and reviewed. Every version says which rules it holds, which sources they came from and when those sources were read. The footer of every screen names the version that ran. A check is only ever as good as the version that ran it, and we would rather you could see which one that was.

Rules change. A check run today says what today's register said. It does not update itself, and a record you downloaded last month describes last month's register, which is what a record is for.

No candidate data

This product does not accept information about a job applicant at any point, and there is nowhere to put any. Do not paste a CV, an application, a reference or anything else about a person into it. Adverts only.

What you may do

Check your own adverts, and adverts you are advertising on behalf of a client. Keep and share the PDF records. Quote a result internally.

What you may not do

• Present a result as legal advice, ours or anybody's.
• Say or imply that Second Lens has approved, certified or cleared an advert. We have not. No screen in this product uses a word that would suggest otherwise, and that is checked on every build rather than left to care.
• Resell access, or run the checker as a service of your own, without a written agreement.
• Try to extract the rule set, the prompts or the model behind it.
• Send anything through it that is not a job advert.

Your allowance

Checks are counted against your connection, because this product holds no accounts. Your allowance is a number of checks a month, and the count goes back to nothing at the start of each month, reckoned in UK time. Answering the questionnaire raises that number, and the higher number stays with the connection in the months after. Pasting an advert costs nothing. Each check, which reads the advert against every rule and then reads its wording, uses one check from your allowance. A check that is refused, or that fails before any result comes back, costs you nothing. We may switch the limits off for a time; while they are off nobody runs out and nothing is counted.

A licence key raises the allowance on whichever connection uses it. It is not an account and not a password: anybody holding the key holds the allowance, so keep it as you would a prepaid card, and tell us if it needs revoking. You can remove a key from your device and connection at any time from the allowance panel. That does not cancel the licence: the key works again if it is typed in.

Availability

There is no uptime commitment. The checker can be switched off, and when it is, every screen says so and says why. Nothing you have already downloaded is affected by it being off.

Liability

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

Subject to that: this product is provided as it is, we give no warranty that a result is complete or correct, and we are not liable for any loss arising from a decision you took on the strength of one. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

That paragraph is the usual one, and it is worth saying why it is here rather than pretending it is not: a tool that reads law cannot carry the risk of the law being read. You can.

Ending it

Stop using it. If you hold a licence, tell us and we will stop it and refund the unused part of the term.

The law that applies

The law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales, unless you are a consumer in another part of the United Kingdom, in which case your own courts.

Getting in touch

Second Lens, by email at hello@secondlens.co.uk.