1. About these terms
These terms apply when you use the First Hire website. First Hire is a project management consultancy led by Richard Branford, based in Castries, Saint Lucia. By using this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.
These terms cover this website and the free templates on it. They do not set the terms of any consulting engagement. Those are agreed separately in writing, as described in section 3.
2. Using this website
You may use this website for lawful purposes only. You agree not to:
- interfere with the website or try to gain unauthorised access to it or to the systems that run it;
- send us anything unlawful, false, abusive or malicious, including through the contact form;
- use automated tools to copy the site's content in bulk or to overload it.
We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the website at any time without notice.
3. General information, not professional advice
The content on this website is general information about project management. It is not legal, financial, engineering or procurement advice, and it does not take account of your circumstances or your funder's rules.
Sending us an enquiry, or speaking with us, does not make First Hire your consultant. A consulting relationship begins only when both parties have agreed a written scope of work and fees.
Examples, sample reports, figures and results shown on the site are illustrative unless we say otherwise. They are not a guarantee of any outcome on your project.
4. Free templates
The templates on our Tools page are provided free of charge. Subject to these terms, we give you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to download, adapt and use them for your own projects and for projects you manage for clients, including in a commercial setting.
You may not:
- sell, resell or charge for the templates, or include them in a product or paid download, in their original or lightly modified form;
- publish them on another website or distribute them as your own library of templates;
- remove the First Hire name from a template and present it as the work of someone else.
The templates are starting points. They are supplied as they are, without any warranty that they are complete, accurate or suitable for your purpose or that they meet the requirements of a particular donor, lender, regulator or procurement system. Check your funder's rules and take professional advice where you need it. Before you rely on a template, review and complete it for your own project.
Before you open any file, scan it with up-to-date security software as you would with any download.
5. Intellectual property
The website, including its text, design, logo, graphics and the templates, belongs to First Hire or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. Except for the template licence in section 4, nothing in these terms gives you any right in it. You may share a link to this website freely. You may quote short extracts if you credit First Hire and link back to the source.
Anything you complete or create using a template is yours.
6. Information you send us
You are responsible for making sure that what you send through the contact form is accurate and that you are allowed to share it. We will use it as described in our Privacy Notice. Do not send confidential or commercially sensitive documents through the form. If you need to share them, ask us first, and we will agree a secure way and, if appropriate, a confidentiality agreement.
7. Links to other websites
This website links to other websites, including our ContractIQ service at fhcontractiq.com, and lets you contact us through WhatsApp. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices. Their own terms and privacy notices apply when you use them.
8. Availability and accuracy
We take care to keep the website accurate and up to date, but we do not promise that it will always be available, error-free or free of harmful code, or that the content is complete or current. Information may become out of date, for example when laws, procedures or funder requirements change.
9. Limits on our liability
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. Subject to that, and to the extent the law allows:
- we provide the website and the templates without warranties of any kind, express or implied;
- we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or reliance on, the website or the templates, including lost profit, lost contracts, lost data, funding delays or any indirect or consequential loss;
- our total liability to you in connection with the website and the free templates will not exceed EC$100.
These limits do not apply to anything we agree to deliver under a written consulting agreement, which has its own terms.
10. Indemnity
You agree to be responsible for any loss, claim or cost that we suffer because you broke these terms or misused the website or the templates.
11. Privacy
Our Privacy Notice explains how we handle personal information, and forms part of these terms.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top shows when they were last changed. By continuing to use the website after a change, you accept the updated terms.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Saint Lucia. Any dispute about them or about your use of this website is subject to the courts of Saint Lucia, unless the law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.
14. If a term does not apply
If a court finds that part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest stays in force. If we do not enforce a term at once, we have not given up our right to do so later.
15. Contact
Questions about these terms? Write to us:
First Hire
P.O. Box CP5577
LC04 301 Castries, Saint Lucia
r.a.branford@gmail.com
(758) 712 7748