Terms of Use

Create and use your account honestly, protect candidate data, and use Istiqtab only for genuine recruitment. Istiqtab helps candidates and verified employers connect, but it does not make hiring decisions or guarantee employment. Premium adds organization and preparation tools; it does not buy ranking or a hiring result.

These Terms form an electronic contract between you and Omar Alhamdan, operating Istiqtab under Freelance Work Permit No. FL-116836033 for Talent Acquisition. By creating an account or purchasing a service, you confirm that you are at least 18, have legal capacity, and accept these Terms, the Privacy Policy and Payments & Returns Policy. A representative registering an employer confirms authority to bind that organization.

Istiqtab provides technology for candidates to create professional profiles and for verified employers to find and organize potential candidates. Unless separately and lawfully agreed, Istiqtab is not the employer, does not make an offer or employment decision, does not guarantee a vacancy or candidate, and is not a party to an employment contract. A “Hired” or “Filled” label is an internal recruitment workflow status only, not a contract, work permit, Qiwa record, or Saudization outcome. Each employer remains responsible for creating and documenting any applicable employment contract through Qiwa and complying with Ministry requirements. Describing the service as a technology platform does not remove any licensing obligation imposed on its actual activities.

You must provide accurate information, keep it current, use only your own account and protect your credentials. Notify istiqtab.co@gmail.com promptly of suspected compromise. We may require email, identity, company or Commercial Registration verification and may reject or pause access when verification cannot be completed.

• When you save a CV, it may appear to verified employers whose required filters match it. You may delete a CV or account, or submit a restriction, withdrawal, access or correction request through Privacy Controls.
• You must have the right to submit all CV content and must not misrepresent qualifications, identity or work authorization.
• Do not upload unnecessary sensitive data, government IDs, confidential employer material or third-party personal data without authority.
• Core profile creation and genuine employment discovery are not conditioned on buying Candidate Premium. Premium never buys employer ranking, visibility or placement.

• Use candidate data only for a specific, genuine and lawful recruitment purpose and limit access to staff who need it.
• Apply job-relevant criteria, independently review profiles and make human, non-discriminatory decisions. Do not infer or use protected or sensitive traits.
• Do not publish or use criteria that discriminate by sex, disability, age, or another prohibited basis. State only relevant, objectively necessary role requirements. Report a discriminatory or misleading advertisement through the complaint page.
• Do not scrape, bulk-download, resell, advertise to, harass, background-check without lawful authority, or retain candidate data longer than necessary.
• Comply with Saudi labour, Saudization, job-advertising, interview, immigration and data-protection requirements, and obtain any authorization required for your recruitment activities.
• Delete or return candidate data when the recruitment purpose ends or the candidate lawfully requests it, unless retention is legally required.

Broad browsing is disabled. Employers must select at least one essential requirement and one education requirement; experience and skills filters are optional. Candidate Premium is not shown to employers and does not affect ordering or visibility. Istiqtab does not provide an automated employability score or make hiring decisions. Employers remain responsible for relevant, fair and human review.

Payments are not currently enabled. Before any paid plan is offered, Istiqtab will publish the applicable price, payment-provider details, tax/invoice treatment, cancellation and refund terms, and the required consumer information. Candidate Premium provides candidate-side productivity tools only; it never buys employment, employer ranking or visibility. Payments, refunds and activation will be governed by the Payments & Returns Policy and mandatory Saudi consumer law when activated.

You may not break the law; discriminate; impersonate; submit malware; bypass access controls or rate limits; probe the service without written authorization; scrape or create a shadow candidate database; send spam; publish deceptive jobs; demand unlawful candidate payments; misuse CVs; or use the platform for surveillance, credit, insurance or another incompatible purpose.

You retain ownership of content you submit. You grant the operator a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, copy, format and display it only as needed to provide, secure and improve the contracted service according to the Privacy Policy. You are responsible for having all necessary rights. The Istiqtab name, software and original interface content remain owned by the operator or its licensors. Feedback may be used without identifying you.

Personal-data processing is governed by the Privacy Policy and Saudi PDPL. Employer access to a profile is confidential and limited to genuine recruitment; it does not transfer ownership. Each employer is responsible for its own processing after receiving candidate data. Optional CV auto-fill runs on Istiqtab's server, requires separate consent, and is not needed to use the manual CV builder.

You may stop using the service and request account deletion. We may restrict or terminate access for material breach, fraud, unlawful use, security risk, failed verification or legal requirement. Where practicable, we provide notice and an opportunity to remedy; urgent restrictions may be immediate. Termination does not remove accrued payment, confidentiality, intellectual-property, privacy or dispute obligations.

We may maintain or improve the service and may discontinue a feature with reasonable notice where practicable. We do not promise uninterrupted availability or a hiring outcome. We will not materially remove paid functionality without providing a lawful remedy. Information submitted by users may be inaccurate; users must perform their own checks.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability or consumer rights that Saudi law does not permit us to exclude. To the extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss that was not reasonably foreseeable.

Saudi law governs these Terms. Contact istiqtab.co@gmail.com first so a complaint can be investigated. Nothing limits a consumer's right to use the competent Saudi authority or court. Material changes will be notified before taking effect where required and will not retroactively remove accrued rights. If Arabic and English conflict, the Arabic text prevails to the extent permitted by law.